#on a mac you can force an en-dash with the hyphen key+option
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Technically many autocompletes change two hyphens to an em-dash, which is what you want here!
Hyphen: -
en-dash: –
em-dash: —
An en-dash is, I believe, supposed to be used in giving ranges. Like, 2022-2023 should actually be 2022–2023. You don't see people doing that often, though.
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
#pedantic woman strikes again#on a mac you can force an en-dash with the hyphen key+option#em-dash is hyphen+option+shift#which is useful if you're on tumblr in firefox and it doesn't change the hyphens!
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