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Em Dash in Reddit Comments
- thesh4d0w 10mo agoHard to correlate this to any real world events when the X axis is in days since epoch, rather than a human intelligible format.
- jonatron 10mo agoHopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible
- garyfirestorm 10mo agohere you go https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq
- crote 10mo agoWhat's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 10mo agoiOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.
- jonatron 10mo agoLooks like it auto-corrects -- to — https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all from iOS 11
- intervolz 10mo agohere you go: https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer/ https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer/
- forgotmypw17 10mo ago2020 1577836800 15 2021 1609459200 16 2022 1640995200 16 2023 1672531200 16 2024 1704067200 17 2025 1735689600 17
- treetalker 10mo agoFrom my cold, dead hands.
- FireBeyond 10mo agoFrom your cold — dead, in fact — hands?
- heavensteeth 10mo agoHis hands aren't just cold — they're dead.
- garyfirestorm 10mo agoHere's a better version of the plot https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq
- jonatron 10mo agoThanks, although it's annoying to access from the UK.
- yatopifo 10mo agoWhich dash is the following: — ? N or M?
- quuxplusone 10mo ago— is U+2014 EM DASH. (Source: copy-paste into https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%E2%80%94 https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%E2%80%94 ) An en dash is shorter: –.
- p0w3n3d 10mo agoMeanwhile people who write m-dash because they like good typography... But TBH m-dash is inaccessible enough to prevent people doing so, at least on forums
- tomjakubowski 10mo agoIt's long been easy to type one on a Mac— option+shift+hyphen. The shortcut is mnemonic, even.
- DANmode 10mo agoGuiltily swapped back to small hyphens recently, so as not to arouse suspicion that my very-human texts and emails are AI generated. Minor sadness.