If you can’t feel secure (and teach your children to feel secure) in nightmare scenarios with 1-in-610,000 odds, the problem isn’t the world. It’s you.
It works better with longer dashes—I always get thrown off when someone uses a single hyphen instead of faking an en dash with two hyphens surrounded by spaces.
It works better with longer dashes—I always get thrown off when someone uses a single hyphen instead of faking an en dash with two hyphens surrounded by spaces.
Should be an em-dash, really. You can get em-dashes — on a mac, at least — by typing option–shift–minus-sign.
Some people prefer en-dashes – option-hyphen, alt-0150 – when you’re surrounding them with spaces, only using em-dashes without the spaces, but I don’t think it’s important. Hyphens are more Lynx-friendly, so I often use those.
-- Bryan Caplan
Great quote, though it took me a minute to parse. I think it’s the dashes that did it. Wouldn’t this read a lot better with commas instead?
If you can’t feel secure (and teach your children to feel secure) in nightmare scenarios with 1-in-610,000 odds, the problem isn’t the world. It’s you.
It works better with longer dashes—I always get thrown off when someone uses a single hyphen instead of faking an en dash with two hyphens surrounded by spaces.
Should be an em-dash, really. You can get em-dashes — on a mac, at least — by typing option–shift–minus-sign.
Some people prefer en-dashes – option-hyphen, alt-0150 – when you’re surrounding them with spaces, only using em-dashes without the spaces, but I don’t think it’s important. Hyphens are more Lynx-friendly, so I often use those.