Sternhammer

joined 2 years ago
[–] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

The first game is set in North America but mostly looks like Iceland. I don’t have high hopes that Kojima’s Australia will be recognisably Australia.

[–] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sounds wonderful. I recently had my writing—which is liberally sprinkled with em-dashes—edited to add spaces to conform to the house style and this made me sad.

I also feel sad that I failed to (ironically) mention the under-appreciated semicolon; punctuation that is not as adamant as a full stop but more assertive than a comma. I should use it more often.

[–] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I’ve long been an enthusiast of unpopular punctuation—the ellipsis, the em-dash, the interrobang‽

The trick to using the em-dash is not to surround it with spaces which tend to break up the text visually. So, this feels good—to me—whereas this — feels unpleasant. I learnt this approach from reading typographer Erik Spiekermann’s book, *Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works.

[–] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

A cage match would be good. Hopefully neither will survive.