> …if you see an emdash it’s probably AI generated…
Or, and—hear me out—the writer typed two successive hyphens on their iDevice.
Or, and—hear me out—the writer typed two successive hyphens on their iDevice.
Outlook used to do this. I'm using a Mac, and Outlook on the Mac is a different animal, so Outlook on Windows may still do this conversion.
To get an en dash in Word, type "<word> - <word>" (word space hyphen space word) followed by spacebar.
To get an em dash, type "<word>--<word>" (word hyphen hyphen word) followed by spacebar.