Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Yahoo(ps)!

How to Make Your Editor Mad in Eight Words or Less, from Yahoo.com this past Friday: "Hillary delivered mdash how will Bill Clinton fare?"

I wonder how one delivers an mdash (or, more accurately, an em dash)? If it takes more than 30 minutes, is it free?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is almost certainly the fault of the person converting the copy to HTML — the command for an em dash is "mdash", surrounded by an ampersand and a semicolon. :)

Amie said...

Well, hopefully no heads rolled.