{"id":9441,"date":"2016-09-26T07:55:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2016-09-26T01:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T01:37:07","slug":"tricky-russian-typography-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/tricky-russian-typography-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricky Russian Typography \u2013 Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last time, we started talking about punctuation that may be tricky to enter<\/a> for Russians primarily used to handwriting; specifically, we covered direct speech. We are continuing to some other tricky cases.<\/p>\n

Dash<\/h2>\n

At least in the US, a lot of attention is paid to distinguishing hyphens from n-dashes from m-dashes<\/a> and the proper use of each kind. (Readers from other Anglophone countries and speakers of other languages that use dashes in writing \u2014 what’s your experience?) I never remember hearing about different kinds of dashes in Russia. We were taught there is \u0434\u0435\u0444\u0438<\/span>\u0441 (hyphen) and \u0442\u0438\u0440\u0435<\/span> (pronounced\u00a0\u0442\u0438\u0440\u044d, dash).<\/p>\n

\u0414\u0435\u0444\u0438\u0441 is used as an orthographic character within words as described here<\/a>, while \u0442\u0438\u0440\u0435 is used as punctuation in sentences<\/a>. Russian designer Artemy Lebedev covered the difference between hyphens, minus signs, n-dashes, and m-dashes<\/a>\u00a0in Russian.<\/p>\n