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[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

True. I type them with Shift+Option+hyphen or just -- on mobile.

Although come to think of it, do I use em-dashes, or en-dashes? I know I wrote something where I paid very close attention to which is which but I guess I'm more slipshod with those nowadays.

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Type one into here or other sites like that. It's an en dash (the shorter one) if you get 2013 and an em dash if you get 2014

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you, mystery solved kind of. It's the em dash, I can see that very clearly on my computer that my muscles know the keyboard shortcut, but when I was typing on my phone I couldn't remember it.

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