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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

We should hold an election to select a special title for Alorael, to be granted some time after the Pizzabella thing has grown old. This would not be binding on the adms, any more than the other recent elections were; but it would still be fun. Being even more inconsequential than the General modship, it might generate even more pointless bitterness. This would be even more fun.

I propose the candidate " ": a blank title to represent the inadequacy of any title. It's elegant and concise. It's the brashly over-the-top ne plus ultra in understatement: shibui to the max, and you gotta love that. Like poetry, it nothing affirmeth. It satisfies all constraints vacuously. It's a single-character koan. It's the custom title everyone wants, whether they realize it or not, but at most one member deserves it.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

Actually, it's an endash. For me it's clearly different in length from both an emdash (which is what it should have been) and a hyphen. Possibly you're using a weird font that doesn't properly distinguish between them.

Emdash, endash and hyphen respectively arranged below, for your edification.

&mdash
&ndash
-

If they all look the same to you, it's your browser's fault, not mine.

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