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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by lioeters on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:54PM (#43499172)
That's the comment I was looking for to rally behind. I use the same character `-` for all purposes: minus, hyphen, em/en dash. It's easy to type and it makes practically no difference in meaning or legibility. I refuse to waste my time differentiating between multiple variations of a short horizontal line with a few pixels more or less. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by gabeidx on Saturday March 29, 2025 @04:38AM (#43513845)
By the same logic, why bother with capital letters then?
Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by lioeters on Saturday March 29, 2025 @04:54AM (#43513915)
Legibility. Same with punctuation marks.