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When the kids from next door lose their ball over the fence and try and retrieve it they’re gonna get a face full of flame!

They paint their houses those bright colours because of the long, brutally cold, depressing, grey, sun-starved winters. But great place to visit in the summer months.

Does this mean I won’t be able to use the letter ‘x’ anymore because a multi-billion dollar company has trademarked it:

• Two people fighting will now be boing.
• When I want to bake some bread I will mi the ingredients together.
• When I want to leave a building I will eit it.
• I will now look up to the stars at night to see the magnificent epance of the Milkyway galay.

The m-dash doesn’t really replace any other punctuation–they all have their proper and distinct place.

e.g
The difference between the m-dash in pairs and parentheses is that what’s inside parentheses add additional information that can be ignored altogether in the sentence, whereas m-dash pairs introduce an aside point that relates more closely to the sentence proper.

"Think of m-dashes in pairs as the opposite of parentheses. Where parentheses indicate that the reader should put less emphasis on the enclosed material, m-dashes indicate that the reader should pay more attention to the material between the dashes. "
Source: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/semi-colons-colons-and-dashes/]

Don’t be fooled, you just have to delve into the differences that, when you get down to it, aren’t that subtle.

I’m not a fan of advice that says when the writing is more informal to replace the semi-colon or parentheses, etc, with the m-dash, because it seems to be an excuse to not look into the details and be precise with your punctuation.

I wouldn’t say I’m that techy and I recently jumped over to Linux Mint from Windows because it has the C-compiler gcc pre-installed and it’s UNIX seems to be a better experience for programming. It was easy to install, I find I’m going back to Windows less and less. I used to use Photoshop a lot, now I’m just using Krita. I’m lovin it so far. Only games are a problem maybe, although the game I play has a linux version, I just can’t be bothered loading yet.

Linux Mint is supposed to be the easy for-the-layman Linux distro and that’s been my experience so far - everything has worked, no issues.