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Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.
by codpiece 1y ago
Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.
- yodon 1y agoMicrosoft word would add them for you long before AI
- sli 1y agoEntering two dashes on the iOS keyboard inserts an emdash, I would use them frequently when I had an iPhone.
- anigbrowl 1y agos/sophisticated writer/Mac user. It was a pain to type them on Windows so most people just used the regular dash - accessible on any keyboard.
- codpiece 1y agoI had no idea! I was a typesetter, we would have to manually create them using keyboard shortcuts on both systems.