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Em dashes and emojis

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (12 children)

You are vastly underestimating the amount of people who don't use em dashes at all.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I don’t have a good sense of this since I am a trained writer. Is it really so low that one would reasonably conclude an AI wrote something with them?

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the actual emdash symbol isn't really something you can do when texting from your phone

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You actually can – just long-press the dash.

En-dash: –
Em-dash: —
Dot: •

You can also do proper ellipses by long-pressing the full stop…

And long-press most letters for more options: ă é ï ø û æ œ ç ñ $ £ €

Pretty much everything is in there.

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

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huh, TIL, neat! I'll still probably use normal hyphens for em and endashes, but good to know! will be helpful for bootlegging my own kaomoji lol

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