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Hot take, but a character that demands zero-space between the letters at the end and the beginning of 2 words - that ISN'T a hyphenated compound - is NOT nice t
by HaZeust 9mo ago
Hot take, but a character that demands zero-space between the letters at the end and the beginning of 2 words - that ISN'T a hyphenated compound - is NOT nice typography. I don't care how prevalent it is, or once was.
- imafish 9mo agoagree. it implies a strong relationship between the two words it is inserted between - not the sentences.
- vurudlxtyt 9mo agoThat sounds like a strongly held opinion rather than a fact. I like em-dashes and will continue to use them.
- reddalo 9mo agoI don't know if my language grammar rules (Italian) are different than English, but I've always seen spaces before and after em-dashes. I don't like the em-dash being stuck to two unrelated words.
- mr_mitm 9mo agoIt's a US thing
- xorcist 9mo agoThat's because in Italian, like in many other European languages, you use en-dashes to separate parenthetical clauses. The en-dash is used with space, the em-dash (mostly) without space and that's why it's longer. On old typewriters they were frequently written as "--" and "---" respectively. So yes, it's mostly an English thing. Stick to your trattinos, they're nice!