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kimixa 15 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Em dashes are amazing

A spaced en-dash is also commonly used in British english for the parenthesis equivalent. So it's not really "anglosphere".

While there's no central authority, both Oxford and Cambridge University press style guidelines recommend that.

FabHK 15 days ago [–]

Ah, interesting, so em-dash without spaces really is more of a US convention. My LLM pushed back against that assumption of mine :-)

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