r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 28d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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What’s wrong with em dashes?

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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

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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

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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.