Comment by smallmancontrov
19 hours ago
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Now there's an idea. LLMs may have taken the em-dash from us, but the em-en dash is unknown to Strunk & White and might be human-exclusive for some time yet.
19 hours ago
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Now there's an idea. LLMs may have taken the em-dash from us, but the em-en dash is unknown to Strunk & White and might be human-exclusive for some time yet.
I've taken to using the three-em dash⸻it's very whimsical.
Technically, in latex (and what other format is there?) an en-dash is `--` and an em-dash is `---`. So that was just an em-dash. A `-` is a hyphen.
Us oldies learnt to type these with multiple dashes automatically, as unicode hadn't been invented yet.
This arms race leading, somewhat inevitably, to the development of the eminem-dash.
-- - --
----- .---- ----- ----- .---- ----- ----- ----- ....... ----- .---- .---- ----- .---- .---- ----- .---- ....... ----- .---- .---- ----- .---- .---- ----- .----
Hahahaha nice.
...._ .. ...._ ``````‾ ••••••—
The Darude-Sandstorm dash