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fernandotakai 38 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe...

uh, really?

i really like using em dashes -- for some reason, it feels "better" in my head than using something like a comma or a semi-colon.

RandallBrown 38 days ago [–]

Then why didn't you use an em dash?

fernandotakai 38 days ago | [–]

you can use double dashes to symbolize an em-dash (i prefer to using an actual em-dash, which is option+shift+- in macos).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Approximating_the_em_dash...

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