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He even doom-wrote his own post – No one uses em dashes in the real world.
I do! Although more the en dash than the em. Its also how dialogue is done in Spanish books (replacing the quotation marks)
Love me some en dashes.
Except for Isaac Asimov. His works are littered with the em dash. Which makes me feel like his writing was the base training data for most llms or something.
I mostly assuredly do — and have done my whole life. I deliberately use en-dashes in number ranges (1–10) too.