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Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing by oneeyedpigeon on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:39AM (#49037263)
I think this is a localisation issue; in the UK, it's much more common to see space-surrounded em dashes.
Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing by thfuran on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:15PM (#49042768)
As far as I know, the UK styles that recommend spaced dashes are using en dashes where US English would use em dashes, and the ones that actually use em dashes, like Cambridge or Oxford, are unspaced.