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Em dashes and emojis

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

— try long pressing your phone keyboards hyphen key.

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ok. You can physically type them I concede, but normal humans don’t use them. Still a sign.

I would bet that the amount of non proof writers that uses em dashes goes up just because people see that it’s associated with ai and want to be funny.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Several friends and I have always used them. They’re such a fun punctuation mark.

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yah but your user name is “LanguageIsCool” and you talk about the fun levels of various types of punctuation. You are definitely the outlier here. A cool outlier but an outlier none the less.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.

[–] Scranulum@feddit.nu 3 points 1 month ago

Nah plenty of people use them dawg. Maybe you just haven't been exposed to it.