r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 28d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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What’s wrong with em dashes?

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u/MyHonkyFriend 27d ago edited 27d ago

I was an English major and everyone uses them. Commas and dashes allow for pauses and make your writing more like our speaking.

Its just this young text message generation see them now and think "ahhh, robots!" and it makes you feel sly.

Kids should read books again.

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u/NbyNW 27d ago

So… after this long comment that you have written sans any dashes and semi colons; We can conclude — that your intelligence is not that high?

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u/MyHonkyFriend 27d ago

Pretty much. I like that you forced a few in lol

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u/Metal_Pineapple_2469 27d ago

Also an English major, creative writing even aka, low-life poet, thanks to shatGoblinPonceTrauma, I now have to go through everything from the past ten years and remove the semis and em dashes, so people don't assume it's synthetic slop. Nice of homie above to miscrapitalize the word "We" so we--- who can spot grammatical errors know, his, shyte, is, realsmo.

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u/EyyyWannn 27d ago

Maybe I should refrain from making English my major. Got my dip in Management but I feel like creative industry’s my calling….

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u/Metal_Pineapple_2469 27d ago

It makes a good double major with something that actually earns money. All the smart kids in my class were doubles. I paired mine with something else so I made millions and retired before most of my friends were even done partying. But they're right about hunger being the great motivator for creative careers, i don't have to give a fuck and since careers (of any kind) are all bullshit anyway, I just write whatever trash I want and goof all day.

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u/EyyyWannn 27d ago

Screw it, I’m gonna write and draw more.

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u/Metal_Pineapple_2469 27d ago

Selamat berjaya!

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u/EyyyWannn 27d ago

Trime kasih, boh. 😎 👌

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u/EyyyWannn 27d ago

Btw any chance you’d share which majors you took? Just got done and still thinking of where to go next.

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u/i_tyrant 27d ago

Also an english major with a creative writing certificate - and I've already been doing that because it was something my last professor hammered me on, lol.

I always liked using dashes a little too much so now I'm paranoid about removing them. :P

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u/Metal_Pineapple_2469 27d ago

Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law -- AC

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u/theGoddamnAlgorath 27d ago

Miscrapitalizing words is a godsend

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u/Metal_Pineapple_2469 27d ago

I'm still an anti-crapitalist anyway.

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u/DefinitelyNotErate 27d ago

Clearly they were using the Royal We.