Re: Article on Finno-Ugric in the Economist

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
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> "Marc Adler" <marc.adler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323735
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> The article contains several inaccuracies, starting from the very first
> sentence: it contains a purported Finnish statement, which however does not
> even use Finnish punctuation (we always leave a space around a dash, and
> normally use en dash, not em dash)

Whoa -- a spaced en-dash is _British_ style, and a closed-up em-dash is
_American_ style, and The Economist is a British magazine!
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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