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Here's some examples where the en dash could make things more clear: -5--2°C post-war-pre-digital era See sections 10-O-15-Q Try Our New York-London Flight

Here's some examples where the en dash could make things more clear: -5--2°C post-war-pre-digital era See sections 10-O-15-Q Try Our New York-London Flight Connection!

mvdtnz 2y ago
-5°C to -2°C post-war - pre-digital era (not a sentence any sane person would use anyway). See sections 10-O - 15-Q Try our New York-London flight connection! (no kind of dash clears this one up without fixing capitalisation).
- california-og 2y ago
  The last one was a gotcha: it's their newly established York–London flight! Try Our New York–London Flight Connection. Or if it was New York: Try Our New York – London Flight Connection. Note the additional spaces. Agree on the capitalization though.
  - handoflixue 2y ago
    > Try Our New York – London Flight Connection. I'd wager serious money that if you put that on a sign and surveyed people, at least in the US, they'd all still conclude it is a "New York" to "London" flight. What's the use of a communication tool, if it doesn't actually communicate anything to real people?
  - voidUpdate 2y ago
    York doesn't have an active airport
quanloh 2y ago
In my region at least, -5 ~ -2°C, or -5°C ~ -2°C. If the something is making people confuse, we replace it with a suitable substitution. Re-educating people is really just last resort. Is there anything keeping us from changing it other than ego?
- CRConrad 2y ago
  In all countries I've lived in (and until right now, I thought the entire world), that would mean "-5 is approximately equal to -2".
jeffhuys 2y ago
-5 - 2°C
- CRConrad 2y ago
  = -7°C HTH!
account42 2y ago
Have you heard of "to"?
theelous3 2y ago
Sorry, lol? You didn't really think this through. This is what that looks like using en/em -5—2 That looks like dogshit. It's a mistake in the first place to decide to use only dashes and no spaces to convey all of this lol -5 - 2 (Everyone knows a sign has no space - if you are building your sign for idiots try some of these:) -5 > 2 -5->2 -5 <-> 2 -5 to 2 -5...2 Between -5 and 2 blah blah blah

Here's some examples where the en dash could make things more clear: -5--2°C post-war-pre-digital era See sections 10-O-15-Q Try Our New York-London Flight Connection!

mvdtnz 2y ago

-5°C to -2°C post-war - pre-digital era (not a sentence any sane person would use anyway). See sections 10-O - 15-Q Try our New York-London flight connection! (no kind of dash clears this one up without fixing capitalisation).

california-og 2y ago
The last one was a gotcha: it's their newly established York–London flight! Try Our New York–London Flight Connection. Or if it was New York: Try Our New York – London Flight Connection. Note the additional spaces. Agree on the capitalization though.
- handoflixue 2y ago
  > Try Our New York – London Flight Connection. I'd wager serious money that if you put that on a sign and surveyed people, at least in the US, they'd all still conclude it is a "New York" to "London" flight. What's the use of a communication tool, if it doesn't actually communicate anything to real people?
- voidUpdate 2y ago
  York doesn't have an active airport

quanloh 2y ago

In my region at least, -5 ~ -2°C, or -5°C ~ -2°C. If the something is making people confuse, we replace it with a suitable substitution. Re-educating people is really just last resort. Is there anything keeping us from changing it other than ego?

CRConrad 2y ago
In all countries I've lived in (and until right now, I thought the entire world), that would mean "-5 is approximately equal to -2".

jeffhuys 2y ago

-5 - 2°C

CRConrad 2y ago
= -7°C HTH!

account42 2y ago

Have you heard of "to"?

theelous3 2y ago

Sorry, lol? You didn't really think this through. This is what that looks like using en/em -5—2 That looks like dogshit. It's a mistake in the first place to decide to use only dashes and no spaces to convey all of this lol -5 - 2 (Everyone knows a sign has no space - if you are building your sign for idiots try some of these:) -5 > 2 -5->2 -5 <-> 2 -5 to 2 -5...2 Between -5 and 2 blah blah blah