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Em dashes and emojis

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Em dash will sour your milk and lose your car keys. It will cause your socks to become odd pairs and fart in the lift when your crush alights. Em dash is responsible for the failure of the mars climate orbiter but ran a successful misinformation campaign against SI units.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The illiterate flocking to Lemmy to profess that they don't know how to make em dashes, therefore it's AI

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Bullet successfully Dodged, Anon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

So you're saying if I start using the long dash people will block me faster?

Love it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Finally, something worse than being broken up with via text.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Apparently there's even an en dash and a hyphen.

The English language is so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

There's even the en-dash, the hyphen and the minus sign, which are theoretically all typographically distinct.

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