My other accounts comment seems to have been lost in the void
But this is the fancy and glorious thread I can get behind!
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Can we get a refresher on the usage of the different dashes? I've forgotten everything I learned about them already
The bot has made us dumber
- hyphen-minus. Used for joining two words together (e.g. "see-through") and as the maths "minus" symbol.
– (can type on Windows with alt+0150 on a numpad, or on Mac with option+-, or on most phones by long pressing the hyphen key) en dash. Used for ranges ("5–10 pm"), or in the place of a hyphen with compound nouns ("post–Great Migration trends" vs "post-migration trends"). For these uses, it is not surrounded by any space. It can also be used in place of an em dash, if surrounded by spaces – like this.
— (alt+0151, option+shift+-, long press) em dash. Used as a type of parenthesis, similar to the bracket (like this) or, in some cases, the comma. Used without spaces—like this.
The OP also uses what I called above an "emmm dash", playing on the name of the em dash, which is so-called because it has a width of one "em" (basically, the width of a single character in typography), and this is three ems wide. It doesn't seem to have a proper name in the typography field, though Unicode calls it "three-em dash".
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I think the emmm dash's main use is probably as a dinkus. Its Wiktionary entry says it can also be used to represent censored/redacted information or duplicate authors in a bibliography.
Urban Dictionary says it is "basically used in usernames to show off to other people".
Urban Dictionary says it is “basically used in usernames to show off to other people”.
Hence why I have two of them in mine
You have spaces before and after your em dashes. You're doing it wrong. Suck on that.
Sincerely yours,
Friend of brisbot
On the one hand, I agree spaces surrounding em dashes is not great.
On the other hand, the use of the rare emmm dash is cool enough to make up for it IMO.
Look again, I don't see any spaces. I don't know what everyone's talking about. /s
Oh yes, fancy and glorious!
What it looks like on Windows 10, btw
I find it amusing that Windows can't do emojis properly while I've never noticed an issue on Linux
The superior OS
Truly is, I bought a laptop with 2 nvme slots so I could add a second for Windows if I needed it, it's been 2 years now and the slot remains empty
Ah man, pic no load for me on jerboa :(
Swapped accounts, working fine on this one... Ignore that doofus above, they don't know what they are on about at all... 🙄
I've been finding the new proxy feature seems to be slowing down image loads. Usually a refresh or two will make it work.
That's what it looks like on Linux (GNOME desktop)
omg white mode. It blinds us!
Light mode. There are dozens of us!
For whatever reason I don't like changing defaults - haven't even changed my wallpaper
I thought dark mode was the default on Lemmy? It's what I see when logged out, anyway.
It probably changes to match the system colour theme, it shows up dark on my phone (which I think is set to dark mode), my computer is set to light (mixed) mode (GNOME default), whereas last time I used Windows 10 I think dark was the default (until they brought in that weird white taskbar thing)