Editing User talk:Shift (section)

== Re: Punctuation and Such ==

Hyphens to em dashes: To me, 3 hyphens looks the same size as a single em dash. (--- —) So I change them in groups of 3. If there are any leftover I will just remove them. In some cases there are only 2 hyphens to begin with so I just change it into an em dash. I'll also change it where a single hyphen is used but an em dash would serve better. I keep a space before and after, unless it starts a sentence.

Ellipses: Pretty much the same thing as with the hyphens, as 3 periods make up an ellipsis. Except that I don't put a space prior to one. Only after, with the exception of if it's used to start a sentence. 

Tildes: I've never really altered the tildes. I don't know of any conventions for using them. I can't ever really recall seeing them in English novels either, so I just let them be. 

Hope all that helps. [[User:Kory|<span style="color:Green;font:normal 10pt Papyrus, fantasy">Kory</span>]] 14:00, 26 June 2013 (CDT)

P.S. Sorry for my lack of editing recently. I've recently started learning Japanese and find it quite enjoyable so I find myself spending less time editing and more time studying.


Yes, I am aware of that but the thing is that I don't really fill the summary box for every edit that I make, I just quickly pick one from the drop-down list of previously used summaries, and also I didn't really think that the summary being listed as "grammatical" would bother people, but seeing that you are indeed bothered by it, I will summarize such edits appropriately in the future. Thanks for pointing that out to me and sorry for any inconvenience my laziness might have caused you. --[[User:Rohan123|Rohan123]] ([[User talk:Rohan123|talk]]) 12:42, 27 July 2013 (CDT)

(reply on [[User talk:Rohan123|Rohan123's talk]] page) -[[User:Shift|shift]] ([[User talk:Shift|talk]]) 15:51, 27 July 2013 (CDT)