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Re:Regarding the Em Dash by mort96 on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:25PM (#16089149)
There's such a thing as an en-dash too: http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/en-dash.html

I don't know enough about punctuation to know whether he actually meant "em" when he wrote "en" in several places, but I'm going to assume he actually meant to refer to em-dashes some places, and en-dashes others.

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Re:Regarding the Em Dash by cryptonector on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:28PM (#16089159)
"you misspelled ..." is often a way to be funny. I suspect colanderman was making a point about em dashes being mo' better than en dashes.
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Re:Regarding the Em Dash by colanderman on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:50AM (#16089477)
No, the GP literally mistyped (or had autocorrected) "em" as "en" in a couple locations. Fixed now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16089209).
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