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Discover Your Odds of Getting into Medical School
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More importantly - what's the longest you went without a shower while working on your secondary essays? 😉
 
Makes one wonder if somewhere out there is a grid with three columns where you can connect sentence fragments to generate secondary essays.
 
Enterococcus said:
Honestly, the "—" is probably the most used "term" in my application as a whole — I'm glad that others share this point of view.
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Well ****. I use “-“ not “—“. Am I in trouble? TBF, I also used many “; and : and () and *” to mix it up...
 
MemeLord said:
Well ****. I use “-“ not “—“. Am I in trouble? TBF, I also used many “; and : and () and *” to mix it up...
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Sir, the em dash serves a far different purpose from the n dash or the hyphen. However, the semi colon— another worthy character in the world of punctuation— would likely give you that grammar clout you seek.
 
rollingstoneshill said:
Sir, the em dash serves a far different purpose from the n dash or the hyphen. However, the semi colon— another worthy character in the world of punctuation— would likely give you that grammar clout you seek,
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How would you use the n dash? I understand the hyphen in a connect-these-words sort of way, but - aside from its use as a hyphen - can the ‘n dash’ not be used in the way I just did? I used it that way everywhere...
 
MemeLord said:
How would you use the n dash? I understand the hyphen in a connect-these-words sort of way, but - aside from its use as a hyphen - can the ‘n dash’ not be used in the way I just did? I used it that way everywhere...
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The en dash isn't that common tbh, and hard to tell the difference between it and a hyphen or em dash because its between them in length. But it basically just means "through", like "Pages 45–50" or "August–December".

Edit: most people just use a hyphen for the en dash. also I'm joshin ya, nearly no one cares this much about the length of your dashes, unless they're me for some reason.
 
MemeLord said:
How would you use the n dash? I understand the hyphen in a connect-these-words sort of way, but - aside from its use as a hyphen - can the ‘n dash’ not be used in the way I just did? I used it that way everywhere...
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you have 4.5 Interview invites so I don't think I'd worry about it too much
 
rollingstoneshill said:
The en dash isn't that common tbh, and hard to tell the difference between it and a hyphen or em dash because its between them in length. But it basically just means "through", like "Pages 45–50" or "August–December".
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Huh, didn’t know there was a difference between all of these or even specific names. I just call them “dash.” Will anyone care?
 
MemeLord said:
Huh, didn’t know there was a difference between all of these or even specific names. I just call them “dash.” Will anyone care?
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Literally zero people will care, I'm just having fun with my useless knowledge of dash lengths 🙂
 
rollingstoneshill said:
Literally zero people will care, I'm just having fun with my useless knowledge of dash lengths 🙂
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I don’t have any useless dash length information to exchange back. However, in exchange for your useless knowledge I give you this:

Floccinaucinihilipilification - the act of habit of estimating as worthless.
 
MemeLord said:
I don’t have any useless dash length information to exchange back. However, in exchange for your useless knowledge I give you this:

Floccinaucinihilipilification - the act of habit of estimating as worthless.
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The floccinaucinihilipilification by adcoms of various dash usages in your application is inevitable.
 
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