Oh no I did a and hominem

My whole point was that opening "big boy books" doesn't actually make a point about the validity of a thing. That's just argumentum ad populum.

And what's your argument? YOU have never read any literature that made use of em dashes? But you're showing no evidence of these dashless works at all?

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And yes, you made an ad hominem, check the site guidelines. You can make your point without being a dick.