• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    6 months ago

    I very rarely even see em dashes in regular text. I wouldn’t know how to type them on neither my PC nor my phone (the latter at least not intuitively) anyway. I always use -, and assumed en and em dashes were only used in books and such, where you also use lots of different fonts, sizes, »« instead of „“/“”, etc. If you truly want an artistic pause that is longer than ‘-’… just use …

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      6 months ago

      I use em-dashes a lot, I just hit the ?123 button on the bottom left side of my phone keyboard and long-press the hyphen. The thing is, I use em-dashes where a human would use them, I don’t sprinkle them on like sentence enhancers

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        6 months ago
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        Oh yeah

        Dash, double dash and triple dash (that’s at least what I’d think intuitively)