Like a fermata in music!

…commash, in contrast, it becomes much more of a dramatic pause. That m-dash stick becomes a signal: Stop for a moment, my reader, in the snowy woods of the middle of this sentence, and take stock before moving on!
Weird 19th-Century Punctuation Marks You Should Try Using
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Kaia Maeve
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Sep 30, 2022
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Like a fermata in music!
I had a shirt once that said, “I’m a fermata. Hold me.”
It was so cute!

Go team punctuation!
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