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Should not the hyphens near the beginning be either n-dashes with spaces or m-dashes without? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Types_of_dash
Thanuir, I agree it looks unusual. On the internet, I would expect space-hyphen-hyphen-space, like:
We are -- if a man of forty can claim that privilege -- fellow members
In the article you cite, the section "Approximating the em-dash with two or three hyphens" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...three_hyphens)
it seems to me they are saying no spaces--like this--would be normal (that two hyphens directly replace an em dash). That doesn't look right to me.
One can also copy-paste the correct dashes, at least on a computer: — –
So, my understanding is:
We are – if a man of forty can claim that privilege – fellow members of the world's largest younger generation.
Or (to me ugly, but a matter of convention):
We are—if a man of forty can claim that privilege—fellow members of the world's largest younger generation.
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So we part, I to my country and you to remain. We are-if a man of forty can claim that privilege-fellow members of the world's largest younger generation. Each of us have our own work to do. I know at times you must feel very alone with your problems and difficulties. But I want to say how impressed I am with what you stand for and the effort you are making; and I say this not just for myself, but for men and women everywhere. And I hope you will often take heart from the knowledge that you are joined with fellow young people in every land, they struggling with their problems and you with yours, but all joined in a common purpose; that, like the young people of my own country and of every country I have visited, you are all in many ways more closely united to the brothers of your time than to the older generations of any of these nations; and that you are determined to build a better future.
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So we part, I to my country and you to remain. We are – if a man of forty can claim that privilege – fellow members of the world's largest younger generation. Each of us have our own work to do. I know at times you must feel very alone with your problems and difficulties. But I want to say how impressed I am with what you stand for and the effort you are making; and I say this not just for myself, but for men and women everywhere. And I hope you will often take heart from the knowledge that you are joined with fellow young people in every land, they struggling with their problems and you with yours, but all joined in a common purpose; that, like the young people of my own country and of every country I have visited, you are all in many ways more closely united to the brothers of your time than to the older generations of any of these nations; and that you are determined to build a better future.
edited by AlanF_US, August 20, 2020
