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I'm more curious about the usage of em/en dash, most people in my life had no idea it existed. I myself only discovered them for the first time when reading a
by DaSHacka 1y ago
I'm more curious about the usage of em/en dash, most people in my life had no idea it existed.
I myself only discovered them for the first time when reading a punctuation site to ensure I was using semicolons grammatically correctly.
- nunez 1y agoI always used three hyphens in place of the emdash; easier to type.
- DaSHacka 1y agoSome of my acquaintances were doing the same, but unintentionally. I had also thought news articles and the like were using regular hyphens that were extended due to some weird font.
- saurik 1y agoWhile I've seen it in tooling like markdown--with two being an endash--that's very very wide... I am very sure the convention has always been to use two hyphens for an mdash (which is even easier to type! ;P).
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- dx4100 1y agoI've been using double hyphens (which auto-corrects to emdash now) for as long as I can remember. Now that it's a marker of AI, I find myself removing it whenever I reply to comments.