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pasquinellitoday at 5:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

i would expect emdashes in a professionally published website.


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jermaustin1today at 6:03 PM

Same. I believe Word and most other word processors and desktop publishing applications convert standard keyboard-typed hyphens to em- or en-dashes automatically, and have for decades.

jknoepflertoday at 5:47 PM

particularly academic writing... said having worked as an editor at an academic journal long before ChatGPT was a thing, and having corrected many hyphens to m-dashes.

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