Em dashes and emojis
Is this a thing? Shit, I’m now going to be self conscious about using the em.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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If you're already breaking up over text, you probably aren't in a position to worry much about how they interpret your typography. And if they haven't noticed how you normally write there's even less reason to worry about it.
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The illiterate flocking to Lemmy to profess that they don't know how to make em dashes, therefore it's AI
Bullet successfully Dodged, Anon.
So you're saying if I start using the long dash people will block me faster?
Love it.
Finally, something worse than being broken up with via text.
Apparently there's even an en dash and a hyphen.
The English language is so fucked.
There's even the en-dash, the hyphen and the minus sign, which are theoretically all typographically distinct.