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the shortest distance between two thoughts, sprinting on tiny punctuation legs
means To move with sudden speed, or the small horizontal stroke of punctuation used to mark a break in a sentence — and by extension, a quick splash or small added amount.
from From Middle English daschen, 'to strike, smash, or splash,' likely imitative of a sharp impact — possibly borrowed from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish daske, 'to slap'). The sense of violent striking softened over time into swift motion (to dash off, to make a dash for it), while the punctuation mark took its name from the same idea of a quick, slashing stroke of the pen.
- em vs en
- Em-dash equals the width of capital M
- morse code
- Dot and dash carried words across oceans
- speed origin
- From Old Norse meaning to strike violently
- car parts
- Dashboard once blocked mud dashed by horses
- hundred-yard
- Sprint where milliseconds separate legends from forgotten
dash cam — in-car video recorder, widely used in russia and china since early 2000s for insurance/accident evidence
em dash — punctuation mark (—) used in writing to indicate pauses or breaks in thought