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Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing by kimixa on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:18PM (#49040437)
A spaced en-dash is also commonly used in British english for the parenthesis equivalent. So it's not really "anglosphere".

While there's no central authority, both Oxford and Cambridge University press style guidelines recommend that.

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Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing by FabHK on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:10AM (#49045903)
Ah, interesting, so em-dash without spaces really is more of a US convention. My LLM pushed back against that assumption of mine :-)
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