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Re:Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harr... by benterix on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:09AM (#48814932)
> I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes.

I'm sorry to break it to you but the sentence you just wrote doesn't contain any —s.

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Re:Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harr... by fenomas on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:15AM (#48815358)
I always find it strange how many HN commenters appear to have unconsciously added "exclusively" or "without exception" to the text of the comment they're replying to.
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Re:Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harr... by TwoFerMaggie on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:30AM (#48815469)
Not the use case for em-dashes. en-dash maybe, but they also didn't say they use en-dashes instead of hyphens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash

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