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Noted for future reference.
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Dissecting demands for an EU referendum.
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The problem with the dash—as you may have noticed!—is that it discourages truly efficient writing. It also—and this might be its worst sin—disrupts the flow of a sentence. Don't you find it annoying—and you can tell me if you do, I won't be hurt—when a writer inserts a thought into the midst of another one that's not yet complete?
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I help young people learn to talk with people who come from somewhere else and talk in a different way, which also happens to be the way I usually talk. I also help them learn to think about numbers.