• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      23 days ago

      no.

      • comma: do a short pause
      • hyphen: connect two related concept words to loosely create a new word
      • en dash: signify a range
      • em dash: do an abrupt, possibly long, pause or signify an attribution
      • ellipses: do a trailing, possibly long, pause
    • ulterno@programming.dev
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      23 days ago

      For a speaker/listener, yes. But for a reader, it has additional value.
      I don’t remember where I first read em dashes, but there were times when I felt like something didn’t quite match any of the others I usually use [1] and ended up with a feeling that putting a dash over there made sense.
      I also didn’t know the terminologies for these different kinds of dashes, when I started using them.


      1. parentheses, colons (inline or list-starters), semicolons ↩︎