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> the emdash has become the little hitler moustache of punctuation

Legendary.

Miss that shit too.

Ez way to shit on Windows users who had to double up endashes like they were impoverished.

I guess in your analogy the double endash is Stalin’s mustache and the Soviet Union in general - Gaudy, excessive, starving for more

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In the spirit of good pedantic fun, I'll point out that en dashes are no less inconvenient than em dashes for the average Windows user to insert. The hyphen-minus immediately accessible on the keyboard was (and is) used for the common typewriting kludge attested in Garner's[1] as well as the LaTeX-syntax triple-hyphen em dash (which, might I add, for lack of a better place to do so, isn't one of the ways I've seen dashes used by LLMs or disguised by their operators).

1. (. . . Modern American Usage) https://i.vgy.me/UYqs89.png

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