What is the importance of - (dash)?

Question

Think a little. This could be interesting.

I know it is a hyphen. I am looking for out of the box answers here.

Answer 1

The importance if life, the between the lines stuff...that which we do not say...there is where all of the meaning is...So the "-" is more important than the words it separates...it is the implication of more...

Answer 2

Use of hyphen


A number of compound words and phrases are joined by hyphens: thirty-seven;well-wisher;old-fashioned;mother-in-law. For some the hyphens are optional, or inserted only when the word or phrase is used before a noun: a coffee-table book;a well-timed attack (but the book on the coffee table;if the attack is well timed). Most words with prefixes do not have a hyphen, exceptions being those where a capital letter follows the prefix (e.g., pre-Christian) and those where the word could be confused with another (e.g., re-form meaning "form again" as distinct from reform). A hyphen is sometimes inserted when a prefix ending in a vowel is added to a word beginning with a vowel (e.g., co-opt,de-ice). In writing and printing, a hyphen may also be used to show that a word has been broken at the end of a line. Note that the word must be divided between syllables (e.g., stream-ing, not stre-aming) and the hyphen is attached to the end of the first part, not the beginning of the second part. Ideally there should be at least two letters in each part of the divided word.

Answer 3

I believe the dash to be a manifestation of the inner-workings of all our minds on a subjective group level. It is the connector and the "maybe" of things to come and things past. The inspired muse of the dash and its ramifications, I think, are best portrayed in the works of poet Mark A. Tisland. He is a brilliant poet of our day, and he expounds on such seemingly non-existential factors which have hold in our everyday (every-day?) lives.
Plus, if you are making a pie, and you accidentally put a pinch of salt where a dash had been called for...well...need I say more?

Answer 4

A dash inticates a range between two numbers as in the example
45 - 65

Answer 5

Life? Yahoo! Answers? Sex?

I don't know.

Life: Living it and find our purpose.

Yahoo! Answers: Confiding in others or having fun.

Sex: Pleasure and reproduction.

Damn. This world is sick.

Answer 6

Hahahahahaha, and I'm not atelling which one I'm alaughing at!!!!
(you asked, didn't you???).

Answer 7

panocha

Answer 8

pusssy????