Human writers have always used the em dash

Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by redwall_hp on Monday September 15, 2025 @12:05PM (#45251369)

Reddit doesn't have to: phones do. Just long-press the hyphen key and you get a popover to select an em dash, en dash or bullet.

It works the same way on a Mac (key repeat off) or by pressing option+shift+hyphen (key repeat on).

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by AlecSchueler on Monday September 15, 2025 @01:43PM (#45252687)

Ain't no one got the time for that. How do you even know these things without looking them up?

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by currency on Monday September 15, 2025 @01:49PM (#45252761)

If you like and use em dashes, you figure it out

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by AlecSchueler on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:50AM (#45259297)

I do. The point is that most people won't think about it, which is what we're talking about... There being a few outliers on a site called Hacker News who know the shortcuts for extended typography isn't in any way indicative of em dashes being in common use amongst phone users.

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by gizajob on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @12:54PM (#45264782)

You spend a lot of time and money to study the humanities and have your work graded and corrected by picky professors.

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by AlecSchueler on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @04:12PM (#45267363)

Sure, but most people aren't humanities students. I feel the topic of conversation gets a bit lost in this thread at times.

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by Terr_ on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:10PM (#45255586)

Long ago on Windows I learned alt+0150 on the numpad.

Yet now my hard-earned attention to detail attracts nothing but false accusations...

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