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Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please (www.theringer.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/typography@lemmy.ca

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, after digging around, I found em dash.

The sequence for me to get one is:

press the "?123" button
long press the "-"
slide one character on the alternate characters displayed

And ta-da! — an em dash.

Considering that my default mode of typing is swipe where I can spit out this sentence in about 15 seconds, they're not going to be used much by me.

And quite possibly the proportion of em dash users in a typography community is a little bit skewed and maybe not representative of the general internet, haha