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Or, you know — iOS. That’s huge marketshare for a keyboard that automatically converts -- to —

• alchemist1e9 1y ago
  That probably explains everything from a statistical perspective about this em dash topic. I didn’t know that — Thanks.
• redwall_hp 1y ago
  Or Microsoft word. Many common tools in different contexts make it easy to do. As it turns out, the differentiator is the level of literacy.
  • mock-possum 1y ago
    And whether the user cares to ‘write properly’ to boot. I love using dashes to break up sentences - but I rarely take the time to use the proper dashes, unless I’m writing professionally. I treat capitalization the same way - I rarely capitalize the first letter of a paragraph. I treat ‘rules’ like that as typographic aesthetic design conventions - optional depending on context.
• Philadelphia 1y ago
  You can also hold down the hyphen key and select it from the popup menu. En dash lives there, too.