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Originally posted by the bulldog
TheFLY -- why the fuck do you keep using w/ -- instead of typing with -- and whats the deal w/ your constant use of --
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w/ is just a typing shortcut that I saw used when I was a kid -- I'd be interested to know when "w/" was first used...
As for --, I took a technical writing class in college. The professor gave a lecture about how commas were obsolete. Here are some quotes from a technical writing book I have:
"Choose dashes or parentheses to avoid making an appositive seem like the second item in a series..."
"Use dashes to set off material that interrupts a sentence with a different idea."
"To emphasize a word or phrase at the end of a sentence."
"To set off a definition."
"To introduce a series less formally than with a colon."
So you see dashes are very versatile and formally correct. Since my thoughts include many interruptions -- dashes are very convenient for me during "conversation" and so I have adopted them. They also keep the text looking pretty and less confusing.