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That's actually not very interesting. He was talking about hyphens, but calling them dashes, because normal people do that unless they are talking about typogra
by moron 14y ago
That's actually not very interesting. He was talking about hyphens, but calling them dashes, because normal people do that unless they are talking about typography.
- auxbuss 14y agoNo. "normal people" call them hyphens. I think it is a mainly USian curiosity to call hyphens dashes. The Rest of the World calls hyphens, well, hyphens. It's only the US that call them dashes. I've no idea why that is.
- maikeru 14y agoToken English person here. I called them dashes until I moved to Japan where no-one understands what I mean if I call them dashes.
- vacri 14y agopeople outside the US call them dashes as well, though perhaps not with the same frequency. ... --- ... is not 'dot dot dot hyphen hyphen hyphen dot dot dot', for example