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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

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650 points Stratoscope | 1 comments | 27 Mar 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.751s | source
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Starlevel004 ◴[27 Mar 25 22:09 UTC] No.43498765[source]▶
I refuse to care about this. A single dash is all I will ever use. I see no possible reason to use the other two.
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1. quanloh ◴[28 Mar 25 05:39 UTC] No.43501907[source]▶
me too, do not think it makes a different in actual writing, like handwriting.