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I feel like it was Lewis Carroll where I was first exposed to long dashes. I could be misremembering though.
by JKCalhoun 1y ago
I feel like it was Lewis Carroll where I was first exposed to long dashes. I could be misremembering though.
- kps 1y agoMade me look! 265 in _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. I use em dashes and semicolons and ellipses and parentheses a lot, although I barely make the leaderboard¹. My doctor says I'm human. In the pre-Unicode era of Usenet and mailing lists I used ‘ -- ’ for a long dash. ¹ https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderboard-v2.html https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...