Em dashes and emojis
Or she actually cares about ponctuation. And that's a lost for you.
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I long for the day when we stop giving a fuck about how many pixels a dash has.
Jesus fucking christ it is so insufferable how long this goes on for.
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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).
Humans just use dashes - they get the point across and don't require esoteric button presses.
But it just doesn't look right. I use a double dash, but most places now convert that automatically to em dash.
On the iPhone I just long-press the dash and get alternates like en and em dash, as well as middot. Otherwise, no esoteric button presses. Works on macOS and iPad too.
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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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Yesss em dashes are my babies! They're have more versatility in breaking up sentences than commas IMO, and they don't have as many annoying rules as semi-colons.
But I also write stories as a hobby so thats the reason its something I care about
I'm with you. I used to use a lot more parentheses, but the break is cleaner. I opt for en dashes, though, because I find too em dashes to be too long. That could just be a MSWord preference because I don't distinguish on other platforms.
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You people think em dashes are proof of AI?
Jesus Christ that’s so fucking sad.
Yes. and your ignorance is sad.
It’s honestly unhinged. So many stupid people trying to desperately grasp at something to feel more correct than you™
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Many input mechanisms automatically substitute two hyphens with "–".
Including this very platform.
Lemmy will automatically render a double dash -- as an en dash, and a triple dash
as an em dash.
I usually just type alt + 0151, though, because I'm a nerd.
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My keyboard has them - – — git gud
git push origin main --force
I once wasted an hour trying to figure out why a CLI command straight from a project's README wouldn't work, only to figure out that they had em dashes instead of regular dashes in their example. Ended up opening a PR to hopefully save someone the same pain in the future.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some just open PRs. Thank you for your service. 🫡
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Isn't "It's not you, it's me" the ultimate example of parallel sentence structure? Lol
But let's be real, it's more like...
💔 Here's three reasons reasons we're breaking up:
- Our personalities don't match-- according to (made up citation) people with you type are toxic.
- Your idiology doesn't match mine-- you don't believe in White South African genocide.
- We aren't compatible-- our personalities aren't complimentary.
And so on. Lol
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I'm so sorry your chat bot broke up with you :(
Is this a thing? Shit, I’m now going to be self conscious about using the em.
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.
I've seen this video that talks about some signs of AI text and em dash is one of them
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So you're saying if I start using the long dash people will block me faster?
Love it.