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How do you find yourself using en dashes more than em dashes?

• yoz-y 9mo ago
  Maybe they write out a lot of ranges?
• acidburnNSA 9mo ago
  For me I use en dashes a lot for ranges like 1–N
• wongarsu 9mo ago
  Not OP, but I find the space-en-space convention easier to read than the nospace-em-nospace convention. American style guides prefer the latter – in my eyes they are wrong about that
  • rkomorn 9mo ago
    They're wrong about preferring the style you find easier to read? Did you mean American style guides prefer the latter?
    • wongarsu 9mo ago
      brain fart, fixed
• hayleox 9mo ago
  I am more likely to separate two thoughts with space-endash-space than with an em dash and no spaces. It just feels weird to not type spaces, and I don't want to do space-emdash-space because that would feel like an enormous gap; if the two clauses need that much distance from each other, why not just split them into two sentences? I'm sure this goes against many style guides, but for everyday use it's what feels most natural to me.