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▲The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments (boazsobrado.com)
9 points by sobradob 33 minutes ago | 7 comments
ortusdux 10 minutes ago [-]
Did AI raise awareness of Em-dashes, causing more people to use them organically?
add-sub-mul-div 4 minutes ago [-]
Surely yes, but also surely neglibly compared to the rise of slop being posted. Sometimes things are what they seem!
juped 8 minutes ago [-]
You can pry my em dash—short for "Emily's dash", after the poet—from my cold dead hands.
spudlyo 7 minutes ago [-]
Close, it's the width of the 'M' the the famous author EMdash Forster's name. ;)
kstrauser 1 minutes ago [-]
Not even close. It's named after the em drive, after how fast it helps your thoughts flow to written word.
lapcat 2 minutes ago [-]
Now someone do "the rise of Hacker News meta-analysis" blog posts.
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derbOac 4 minutes ago [-]
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adampunk 6 minutes ago [-]
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