Humans use em dash as well.

I hate that I have had to remove it from my writing style because people assume it’s AI generated. But I think that ship has sailed. I’ll have to do without now.

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breezybottom 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Parentheses usually read better anyway.

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jona-f 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How do you type the em dash. I thought the point about the em dash "—" is, that it is longer than the normal minus "-". Humans normally have no way to produce it, cause there is no key on the keyboard.

	▲	aenis an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Some text editors replace the -- (two separate dashes) with a proper em-dash. Literate people - who understand why em dash exists - have been using it all the time. Thats, after all, how the models learned to use it.
	▲	Metricon 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Many word processors (Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, etc.) and some online editors will auto convert double hyphens "--" as they are typed into an em dash.
	▲	timbeccue 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Macos, ios, google docs, and microsoft word will autocorrect two hyphens to an em dash, which is how I normally type it. On a mac you can also type an em dash with option-shift-hyphen.
	▲	xoxolian 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Being Hacker News, a lot of us use programmable IDEs & keyboards. I added em dash support to both Emacs and Dygma keyboard.
	▲	normis 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		At least in macOS there is a key for that on the keyboard, Shift + Option + Hyphen (-). This information is a quick internet search away.
	▲	icelancer 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		dash dash "--" on a lot of systems and word processors turns it into the em-dash automatically