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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's no —, it's two hyphens playing pretend!

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some Markdown renderers interpret two dashes as an en dash and three as an em dash, so on some Lemmy clients, that might show up as a real en dash.

[–] ChogChog@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

inb4 AI resurrects the tab v. spaces debates but between how many dashes equals an em dash.