[Spivak]

I actually associate it with a younger writer, perhaps it skipped a generation. I can imagine that someone who grew up in a world where typing an em dash meant looking up an alt code would develop a style that avoids them—but it's only a long press of the - away on the device where I do most of my writing by volume so of course I'm going to use them.

[throwanem]

Back when the English Internet was Latin-1, one

    would often see expedients like
    this -- or this--or even, most
    minimally, just this-

which held over well enough that I believe Word by default probably still replaces one of them if you use it.

[sroussey]

My iPhone changes -- to —