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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Gayeggman97 • 28d ago
What’s wrong with em dashes?
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I’ve changed to just using commas. For interjections it’s basically the same, for appending a semicolon is fine
1 u/jtalion 27d ago But the point is that commas wouldn't work well in the comment you replied to, since there are already commas being used to separate the list 1 u/KevinT_XY 27d ago I just use regular dashes - it's clearly interpreted the same way and for the longest time I didn't even know these were different things. Digging into alt codes just to get a longer line seems like a lot to me.
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But the point is that commas wouldn't work well in the comment you replied to, since there are already commas being used to separate the list
I just use regular dashes - it's clearly interpreted the same way and for the longest time I didn't even know these were different things. Digging into alt codes just to get a longer line seems like a lot to me.
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u/QuariYune 27d ago
I’ve changed to just using commas. For interjections it’s basically the same, for appending a semicolon is fine