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Starlevel004 ◴[] 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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lioeters ◴[] No.43499172[source]
That's the comment I was looking for to rally behind. I use the same character `-` for all purposes: minus, hyphen, em/en dash. It's easy to type and it makes practically no difference in meaning or legibility. I refuse to waste my time differentiating between multiple variations of a short horizontal line with a few pixels more or less. Ain't nobody got time for that.
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1. gabeidx ◴[] No.43513845[source]
By the same logic, why bother with capital letters then?
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2. lioeters ◴[] No.43513915[source]
Legibility. Same with punctuation marks.