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Comment by _heimdall

16 hours ago

That's a proper use of a hyphen though, an emdash would be wrong.

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smallerize  16 hours ago

I don't think so, and in fact an em dash would be much less confusing.

audio, e.g. music

audio — like music

  • _heimdall  15 hours ago

    Oh maybe I did just misread the intent of the sentence? I read it as "something like audio" but yeah that is confusing since that would be all music.

  • pixelesque  16 hours ago

    That's a suffix word though, not a pause.

    Hyphens should be used to link compound/suffix words, not em dashes.

    • gcanyon  16 hours ago

      Agreed that hyphens should be used to indicate compound words, but you're saying that "audio-like" is an intended compound word? Then it's an adjective, modifying "music"? What would that mean?

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