• Manticore@lemmy.nz
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    5 hours ago

    I like em dashes. I learned the alt code for en and em dashes just so I could use them easily on a computer. There is a difference between a hypen and an en dash, and a double-hyphen is but a simulacrum of the em dash!

    • Hyphen is just for double-barrelled words
    • An en dash is useful – at least sometimes – for inserting side thoughts
    • ah boy I sure hope an em dash doesn’t interrupt m—

    But let’s be real, I type kinda formally, like an AI, sooo

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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      1 hour ago

      I am not convinced. Sending you to the crypto mines where all AI belong. See you in ten thousand years.