| ▲ | chinathrow 4 days ago |
| Yeah but a dash, at least on my keyboard is a '-', not the one quoted above. |
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| ▲ | Ndymium 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| En and em dashes are easily accessible on both my laptop's and phone's keyboard layouts and I like using them, just like putting the ö in coöperate. It's sad if this now makes me look like a robot and I have to use the wrong dashes to be more "human". |
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| ▲ | unwind 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | TIL that some people spell cooperate with an "ö". As a Swedish native it really breaks my reading of an English word, but apparently it's supposed to indicate that you should pronounce each "o" separately. Language is fun. | | |
| ▲ | cap11235 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | As a native English speaker, it also breaks my reading of "cooperate". Never seen it before. I think parent is just annoyingly eccentric for the sake of it. | | |
| ▲ | anonymars 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Most commonly seen in naïve, and the New Yorker | |
| ▲ | Ndymium 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I admit that latter part is just for whimsy, because I think it looks fun. The dashes I like for their aesthetics and if that makes me eccentric then so be it. They shouldn't distract anyone's reading, or at least they didn't use to before LLMs. |
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| ▲ | Freak_NL 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Using umlauts to signal that a vowel is pronounced separately is common in a number of languages (like Dutch). | | |
| ▲ | unwind 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, I know. It's just confusing for us poor Swedes since "ö" in Swedish is a separate letter with its own pronunciation, and not a somehow-modified "o". Always takes an extra couple of seconds to remember how "Motörhead" is supposed to be said. :) | |
| ▲ | 1718627440 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | But it's not used as an Umlaut here, that's exactly what's confusing. Here this is used as a trema/diaeresis. | |
| ▲ | inejge 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | That kind of use technically makes it a diaeresis, not an umlaut. |
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| ▲ | jnwatson 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Em dashes are widely used. The diaeresis is only used in The New Yorker and those that copied their style. |
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| ▲ | justusthane 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you’re using the dash on your keyboard (which is a “hyphen–minus” character) in place of a en dash or em dash, then you are using the wrong character. That’s fine — it’s certainly more convenient, and I wouldn’t call you out on it — but it’s silly to assume that other people don’t use the correct characters. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/da... |
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| ▲ | ceejayoz 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If I type two dashes—like this—my phone changes it into a special character. Same for three dots… |
