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We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of? (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dashes, of all kinds need to fucking die, die, die.
While not completely fair, my burning hatred of dashes comes for word processing applications automatically replacing hyphens and especially double hyphens in code with dashes. And this never gets caught until said code needs to be copy-pasted back into a functional application, and it fails. Sometimes in weird and horrible ways. So, while it's the auto-replace which causes the problem, the existence of dashes is proximate enough that they all need to be burned out of existence for all time.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago

You've given me a horrible flashback to the time I took two hours to figure out that some code wasn't working because someone else's copy/paste had, somehow, introduced a few zero-width spaces that I did not think to check for

But yes, I agree that using just one character for all three of those would be fine for general purposes and easier in specific fields. I think I'd prefer the en dash to be the default since it's the middle ground size, but to be honest as long as we don't need to start using em dashes as hyphens for very—wide—compounds I'd be happy