I’m not sure if it is that you are not a native speaker or that neither of us are but “do this” is how you write commands and demands. If it wasn’t meant in that way and not meant to me, even though it was written directly in reply to me, then it was a bit poorly thought out since it obviously seems like a demand. But it’s all good as far as I’m concerned
An em dash is often used in place of a colon or semicolon to link clauses, especially when the clause that follows the dash explains, summarizes, or expands upon the preceding clause in a somewhat dramatic way.
Harry would never forget the Tuesday that Mabel called him from the bakery, her voice brimming with excitement—the bakery had added cheese Danishes to its selection.
Although I admit I used a dash instead of an em dash because I didn’t want to look up the special character. I think most people probably understood what I was saying.
I really don’t know how you thought that changes it to something else. It adds to it, giving the actual link, but doesn’t change the actual tone. Or what did you intend it to say?
I think most people probably understood what I was saying.
I don’t think it’s a case of people not understanding, that I agree on.
I don’t think it’s a case of people not understanding, that I agree on.
And now you’re making the ludicrous implication that you know what I meant better than I do when I literally told you that I wasn’t commanding you to do anything or was even talking about you. 🙄
I think we’re done here. You can have the last word to pretend you know me so well again.
I would be really intetested to hear how you imagined the em dash would change the meaning and what the intended meaning was.
was even talking about you
If you reply to people and seemingly talk directly to them then most would assume you are talking to them. I don’t think any amount of em dashes clarifies that it’s meant in some vague fashion.
No I assumed the link part was that, here’s a better link, but what did you make out of the “link to something less awful” part if not telling that I should link to something less awful in the future? I’m not sure how else to read it
If the intention was to just provide the link as they said the first part seems totally unnecessary, especially so since it can easily make the whole comment seem unnecessarily abrasive imo.
Idk, i always assume someone is commenting/responding to the thread, instead of directly to the author of the comment they are responding to.
I’ve read a fair share of the Squid’s posts and comments and feel like they would rather write it like “Please link to something” or “Can you link to something” if they would address you personally.
On the Internet, i’ve learned to not take anything personal from the get go. For my own sanity.
Edit: but i can see where you’re coming from. In a normal conversation - one on one, i would understand it differently.
I didn’t do it here, because i picture lemmy like a big room, with people sitting in groups around a topic and discussing. So i assume people are addressing the group, if not addressing someone specific in their comment.
Sorry for the amount of edits, this was the last one
It’s an interesting assumption, considering that we are talking to each other right now. At least I assume so. Usually in my experience people note that they’re not directly replying to someone because otherwise it does get very confusing.
Not that it matters, really. I’m more interesting about the em dash thing, that supposedly changed the meaning. I just don’t see how.
E: I just realized that them not directly addressing me, who posted the link to New York Post but everyone in the thread posting New York Post links doesn’t change the meaning, just the target. lol
I’m not sure if it is that you are not a native speaker or that neither of us are but “do this” is how you write commands and demands. If it wasn’t meant in that way and not meant to me, even though it was written directly in reply to me, then it was a bit poorly thought out since it obviously seems like a demand. But it’s all good as far as I’m concerned
Genuinely not sure how you figured the hyphen would change it but here’s the full reply. I don’t get it but maybe it changes the meaning to someone
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
Although I admit I used a dash instead of an em dash because I didn’t want to look up the special character. I think most people probably understood what I was saying.
I really don’t know how you thought that changes it to something else. It adds to it, giving the actual link, but doesn’t change the actual tone. Or what did you intend it to say?
I don’t think it’s a case of people not understanding, that I agree on.
And now you’re making the ludicrous implication that you know what I meant better than I do when I literally told you that I wasn’t commanding you to do anything or was even talking about you. 🙄
I think we’re done here. You can have the last word to pretend you know me so well again.
I would be really intetested to hear how you imagined the em dash would change the meaning and what the intended meaning was.
If you reply to people and seemingly talk directly to them then most would assume you are talking to them. I don’t think any amount of em dashes clarifies that it’s meant in some vague fashion.
Muchos gracias.
I also understood it as:
Here’s a link to …
No I assumed the link part was that, here’s a better link, but what did you make out of the “link to something less awful” part if not telling that I should link to something less awful in the future? I’m not sure how else to read it
If the intention was to just provide the link as they said the first part seems totally unnecessary, especially so since it can easily make the whole comment seem unnecessarily abrasive imo.
Idk, i always assume someone is commenting/responding to the thread, instead of directly to the author of the comment they are responding to.
I’ve read a fair share of the Squid’s posts and comments and feel like they would rather write it like “Please link to something” or “Can you link to something” if they would address you personally.
On the Internet, i’ve learned to not take anything personal from the get go. For my own sanity.
Edit: but i can see where you’re coming from. In a normal conversation - one on one, i would understand it differently.
I didn’t do it here, because i picture lemmy like a big room, with people sitting in groups around a topic and discussing. So i assume people are addressing the group, if not addressing someone specific in their comment.
Sorry for the amount of edits, this was the last one
It’s an interesting assumption, considering that we are talking to each other right now. At least I assume so. Usually in my experience people note that they’re not directly replying to someone because otherwise it does get very confusing.
Not that it matters, really. I’m more interesting about the em dash thing, that supposedly changed the meaning. I just don’t see how.
E: I just realized that them not directly addressing me, who posted the link to New York Post but everyone in the thread posting New York Post links doesn’t change the meaning, just the target. lol
The dash thingy is also new to me.