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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I definitely wasn't trying to write a list, it was a riddle or a conversation. What I was trying to do is this:

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Though, it seems speech dash is not a thing in English. So I understand the confusion.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

You had me pondering…yes, quotation dash: it is a thing in English, just less common!

Please disregard what I wrote before: you had it almost correct, but use em dashes as you suggested before. Some OSes offer nice character pickers for less common punctuation: for example, Windows summons it with WindowsKey-.. Apologies.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 23 hours ago

No worries. I tried to look on my English novels first but couldn't find anything like this. I was almost certain that I saw this in one of the Roald Dahls but nope. Well, learned the official name of it too, quotation dash. Thanks.

By the way, Meta (Windows key) + . opens emoji list in KDE.

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago

Yeah its not a thing in English. In Spanish it is as well and learning to read novels in English was a bit confusing at first. I believe the official name is en dash or em dash I forget which