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[+] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I use dashes all the time, but em-dashes? I don't even know how to type those. I guess I could long-press the dash on my phone and select it, but... why?

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    no no, you misunderstand. I'm not talking about the verbal flourish of dashes for interjection - I use those all the time, in this very sentence - I'm specifically talking about producing the specific Unicode character (—) instead of just using the normal ASCII dash (-). the only way I can make the actual em-dash character is by long-pressing. if I do -- or ---, it's just a sequence of normal dash glyphs for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because that's how typography works? Why do you capitalize the first letter in each of your sentences?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I actually don't. :) it's the first thing I disable on my phone. I only capitalize "I" specifically, and proper nouns.

    again though, my issue is one with producing the Unicode character of the specific em-dash glyph. maybe some phones automatically convert dashes to em-dashes based on context but I personally wouldn't know how it's done.

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