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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by milchek on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:52PM (#44870370)
This is the way that I’ve been writing for years, mainly because I was too lazy to use the key or shortcut for em dash. But also because in school no one ever made a big deal about the length of the dash when writing - or I just wasn’t paying enough attention.
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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by fzzzy on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:00PM (#44870423)
That’s a hyphen, not an en dash.
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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by cwillu on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:35AM (#44872444) 

    -    < key between 0 and =
    –   < en-dash [compose] [-] [-] [.]
    — < em-dash [compose] [-] [-] [-]
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