Comment by marginalia_nu
17 hours ago
Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?
17 hours ago
Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?
I doubt it explains any reasonable fraction of this, but github moving from early adopter techies to general population "normies" would be a reason for the shift. I would expect it explains at least some increase in the use of em-dashes.
Do general population normies really use em-dash, or do they just reach for the dash they see clearly printed on their keyboard?
I think they're pressing the default dash (actually a hyphen) twice, and that autocompletes to a single em dash.