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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/
Seeing any em dash in the wild makes me immediately suspicious
I loooove using m dashes. They're just so—expressive.
Yeah, I'm 42 yrs old. A long time ago I sacrificed what lvl of English I did know in order to use "lol" - I'm not giving up em dashes.
That’s probably part of the joke
Compose key, hyphen, hypen. Because while it's a less common usage, visually I prefer the shorter en dash – over the em dash — anyway.
Also for people missing the Unix-style compose key on Windows: https://wincompose.info/. Memorising numeric codes is for chumps :)
OH MY GOD, I CAN GET A COMPOSE KEY ON WINDOWS
Thank you
Bot account obvs
I feel like this is more likely to lead you astray than anything. An LLM bot will immediately know the alt code, while a real person will only know it if they use Windows. Lots of people use Linux, or mobile keyboards.
I always just google 'em dash' then ctrl+c it.
Or if they start explaining what a compose key is; also human
What if they don't know the code and just use a keyshift instead?
Ah, welcome back, Witch Test..
Opt shift hyphen. What's an alt code? 🍏
meh - I just use a dash and move on.
for me it's just altgr+caps followed by tapping - thrice, way better use of the caps lock key. thank u xmodmap