Pregnant pause alert. I like it.

When you use an 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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Clive Thompson
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
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Sep 30, 2022
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Pregnant pause alert. I like it.
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Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman3.2K Followers
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Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.
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