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by petu 28 days ago
formal Russian is 'em dash heavy', here's South Korea Wikipedia arcticle in Russian, Dec 2021 version: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%8...

Ignoring references, just in article text: 5800 words (spaces); 78 em dashes (1.3%); 0 en dashes; 90 hyphens (1.5%).

English version of same timeframe: 16000 words; 0 em dashes; 32 en dashes (0.2%); 262 hyphens (1.6%).

> The emojis used in the bullet points

They're used in one list, where sub-projects are listed. Emojis used in that list are consistent with ones used for same sub-projects on Wiki https://docs.flipper.net/one Someone thought it would be better than plain text, that's it.