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Em dashes and emojis

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (4 children)

My keyboard has them - – — git gud

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

You can pry my em dashes — which I use regularly in writing because I love them — from my cold dead hands (To be fair, I really like parenthetical statements too, could be an ADHD thing).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (25 children)

Humans just use dashes - they get the point across and don't require esoteric button presses.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some phones turn hyphens into an em dash.

Fuck using an alt code though, I'm just gonna use a comma even when I shouldn't

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