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| ▲ | jml78 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Correct, I am 46, grew up with BBS. Early internet. I will be honest, never knew the name of em dash until it became a GPT thing. |
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| ▲ | JdeBP 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | ... meaning that you have read some posts on this page a certain way. (-:
--- IM2000
* Origin: Some WWW site named Hacker News (2:257/609.3)
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| ▲ | YVoyiatzis 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | # Dash Usage Guide *Hyphen (-)* = word-joiner *En dash (–)* = “to/between” *Em dash (—)* = pause, punch, drama |
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| ▲ | reaperducer 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's backwards. People in that age bracket grew up with computers where the em dash was not in the character set at all, and typewriters and terminals only had a minus key. I guess you weren't there. We did em-dashes on typewriters. We just turned the platen knob down one click, typed _, and turned it back. |
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| ▲ | npsomaratna 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Anecdotally, what I've seen is that folks who learned typing in the 80s and earlier use two dashes '--' instead of the em-dash (although modern word processors seem to replace this combination with the em-dash). Something else I've noticed is their tendency to use two blank spaces between sentences. I'm a self-taught typist, with all the quirks that comes with (can type programming stuff very accurately at a 100+ WPM; can type normal stuff at a high WPM as well, but the error rate goes up). | | |
| ▲ | Breza 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I learned to type in the nineties and I used two hyphens. I also learned to put two spaces between sentences but dropped that in the oughts. |
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| ▲ | ted_dunning 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | None of us at our house did that. | | |
| ▲ | reaperducer 5 days ago | parent [-] | | That doesn't mean it didn't happen. Your house is not the only house. Moreover, your home is not representative of the millions of typewriters in businesses around the world. |
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| ▲ | JKCalhoun 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| True, but when desktop publishing arrived on the Mac, I embraced it. |
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