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Em dashes are for humans, not clankers.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What?

[–] hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The en dash is the appropriate kind of dash in this instance, not em.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, it would be a hyphen. No fancy punctuation needed.

[–] hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you. I was under the impression that hyphen and en dash were identical glyphs. As someone with a habit of chiding others for using the wrong sort of horizontal stroke, this was a dangerous misunderstanding for me to have.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The en dash is the appropriate kind of dash in this instance

No. convention dictates that you are wrong and funkless_eck is right.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I'm getting this as a tattoo

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Plop plop my spaghetti slop! Mama Mia!

Sprey about the level 1 computation skills. Its my first dAI. Back to cooking.