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by numlocked 86 days ago
I watched the video at the expecting one thing and finding something completely different. Remarkable — [0] watch the video in its entirety. Not what I thought when I read “staples to repair porcelain”.

[0] intentional human use of an em-dash

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For others interested, perhaps a more straightforward example is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGHkigtPcIA

The one in the article is the same essential technique (structurally speaking), but with a lot more decorative flourish.

"intentional human use of an em-dash" LOL
I still don't like them, human or pretend intelligence generated.

Please use the correct punctuation for subclauses, the comma!

However, I will give the comment author credit for _correctly_ surrounding the dash with spaces.

This is my biggest bitch about the punctuation, it's used without spaces, making it indistinguishable from hyphenation.

Written english is a space delimited language! The exception of the hyphen is to explicitly create one word by connecting several.