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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by KPGv2 on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:15AM (#43501460)
> Some style guides recommend "space, en dash, space" for this

Which one does that? I threw up a little in my mouth and wish to avoid such style guides in the future!

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by mmooss on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:24AM (#43501516)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501482
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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by lxgr on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:26AM (#43501534)
Better avoid British journalism then, and many other languages on top of that.

It’s very common outside of America, even in English.

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