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Modifying dashes within quotations
If you follow The Chicago Manual of Style, then yes—you can change the spaced en dashes to (spaced or unspaced) em dashes:
12: Quotations and Dialogue
12.7: Permissible changes to punctuation, ...
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Why do some people write text all in lower case?
In many online venues and communities, typing in all lower case is not only not regarded as incorrect; it is the ordinary way to communicate, and a norm of sorts. Typing with completely standard ...
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Why do some people write text all in lower case?
Typing in only lower case (whether on desktop or mobile) is simply faster.
Contra the other answers, this is
NOT just a "young" person/"cool"/"slang" thing;
NOT a mobile ...
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Why do some people write text all in lower case?
Cell/Smart Phones
Another possibility, in disagreement with the comment that lower case is suggestive of rapid speech, is that the contributor to X (formerly known as twitter or whatever) is using the ...
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Why do some people write text all in lower case?
There are a few reasons:
lower case appears humble / low-profile
lower case is easier to see and easier to read
for letters which look similar:
I (alphabet capital i) and l (alphabet lower case L)
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Why do some people write text all in lower case?
Summary: These are deliberate choices conveying certain complex social interactions, especially by young people. They are not ungrammatical, nor are they slang. They are also nothing new.
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Why were full stops used in old texts after singular words or incomplete sentences?
There are (at least) two logically consistent ways to interpret a period (full stop) that appears at the end of a string of words in a list entry: (1) as signifying the end of a complete sentence; (2) ...
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