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Em Dash in Reddit Comments

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Hard to correlate this to any real world events when the X axis is in days since epoch, rather than a human intelligible format.

Hopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible

What's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?

iOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.

Thanks, looks good! You should submit it

Submitted! Thank you for the encouragement.

    2020 1577836800 15
    2021 1609459200 16
    2022 1640995200 16
    2023 1672531200 16
    2024 1704067200 17
    2025 1735689600 17

Meanwhile people who write m-dash because they like good typography...

But TBH m-dash is inaccessible enough to prevent people doing so, at least on forums

It's long been easy to type one on a Mac— option+shift+hyphen. The shortcut is mnemonic, even.

Here's a better version of the plot

Thanks, although it's annoying to access from the UK.

Guiltily swapped back to small hyphens recently,

so as not to arouse suspicion that my very-human texts and emails are AI generated.

Minor sadness.

Which dash is the following: — ? N or M?

— is U+2014 EM DASH. (Source: copy-paste into https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%E2%80%94 ) An en dash is shorter: –.

From my cold, dead hands.

From your cold — dead, in fact — hands?

His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.