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by jijijijij 293 days ago
Funny enough, I avoided the em dash, because everyone was using hyphens and I didn't want forensic linguistics bored. Now that AI got my FBI agents on welfare and em dashed the internet kaputt, now that I am liberated, I can't tell an em dash and hyphen apart, hand–written in my diary.
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En dash either, apparently.
It goes way beyond dashes, too.
I have mixed feelings about the liberation but am glad that there are at least two of us.
Em-dashes are very confusing to me, can never figure out if it is a emdash or a hyphen, so I avoid them altogether.
A hyphen is shorter.
It's very difficult to determine if the length is due to the font being used or due to actually being hyphen or emdash.