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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by lxgr on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:19AM (#43504460)
The good thing about style guides is that they’re guides, not laws :)

That’s one thing I really like about English: There’s no central authority decreeing what’s right and what’s wrong top down, and it feels like there is some room for individual preferences and experimentation.

Very refreshing, compared to e.g. German, which has more than one semi-official authority gate keeping “correctness” in speech and writing.

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by mmooss on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:08PM (#43508941)
In fairness, especially in the Anglo-Saxon dominated world post-WWII, English was under no threat to be swamped by German or French words.
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