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Nah, I’ve started noticing people doing this replacement automatically in LLM output. I just try not to write with dashes anymore.

the nn dash remains the goat. the arg dash

Don’t you love when your arg dashes get autocorrected to emdashes? And by love I mean hate with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.

Agreed. On an iPhone that’s the easiest way to type an em dash and consequently the easiest way to fuck up trying to write out a command line example.

I like the cut of your jib.

same, or I use a semicolon

I use a semistoma due to medical reasons.

semi-colon will have me thinking you've typed up your comment in Microsoft Word