How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by asveikau on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:55PM (#43507593)

I'm still doing it when I am typing at a physical keyboard. Hard habit to break. I learned it so long ago too.

You can tell when I've edited something on both a phone and a physical keyboard, based on the inconsistent use of spaces.

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by rahimnathwani on Friday March 28, 2025 @01:00PM (#43507659)

  Hard habit to break. I learned it so long ago too.

Haha I learned to type organically, and it was only in my mid-40s that I retrained myself to type the correct way. It took something like 40 hours of practice on keybr.com before I could get close enough to my regular typing speed, such that I could switch over to the 'correct' method without it impacting my work.

Retraining myself to stop doing double-spaces took maybe a week.

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by kevin_thibedeau on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:40PM (#43508675)

Most word processors can be configured to flag double spaces. That gives feedback to break the habit.

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