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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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