It is so irritating that people now think you've used an LLM just because you use nice typography. I've been using en dashes a ton (and em dashes sporadically) since long before ChatGPT came around. My writing style belonged to me first—why should I have to change?

If you have the Compose key [1] enabled on your computer, the keyboard sequence is pretty easy: `Compose - - -` (and for en dash, it's `Compose - - .`). Those two are probably my most-used Compose combos.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

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Ericson2314 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also on phones it is really easy to use em dashes. It's quite out in the open whether I posted from desktop or phone because the use of "---" vs "—" is the dead give-away.

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HaZeust 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hot take, but a character that demands zero-space between the letters at the end and the beginning of 2 words - that ISN'T a hyphenated compound - is NOT nice typography. I don't care how prevalent it is, or once was.

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reddalo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know if my language grammar rules (Italian) are different than English, but I've always seen spaces before and after em-dashes. I don't like the em-dash being stuck to two unrelated words.

	▲	mr_mitm 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's a US thing

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vurudlxtyt 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That sounds like a strongly held opinion rather than a fact.

I like em-dashes and will continue to use them.

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imafish 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

agree. it implies a strong relationship between the two words it is inserted between - not the sentences.