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Em Dash in Reddit Comments (jonatron.github.io)
thesh4d0w 4 days ago [-]
Hard to correlate this to any real world events when the X axis is in days since epoch, rather than a human intelligible format.
forgotmypw17 4 days ago [-]

    2020 1577836800 15
    2021 1609459200 16
    2022 1640995200 16
    2023 1672531200 16
    2024 1704067200 17
    2025 1735689600 17
jonatron 4 days ago [-]
Hopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible
garyfirestorm 4 days ago [-]
crote 4 days ago [-]
What's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?
jonatron 3 days ago [-]
Looks like it auto-corrects -- to — https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all from iOS 11
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3 days ago [-]
iOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.
intervolz 3 days ago [-]
3 days ago [-]
jonatron 3 days ago [-]
Thanks, looks good! You should submit it
p0w3n3d 3 days ago [-]
Meanwhile people who write m-dash because they like good typography...

But TBH m-dash is inaccessible enough to prevent people doing so, at least on forums

tomjakubowski 3 days ago [-]
It's long been easy to type one on a Mac— option+shift+hyphen. The shortcut is mnemonic, even.
garyfirestorm 4 days ago [-]
Here's a better version of the plot

https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq

jonatron 3 days ago [-]
Thanks, although it's annoying to access from the UK.
DANmode 3 days ago [-]
Guiltily swapped back to small hyphens recently,

so as not to arouse suspicion that my very-human texts and emails are AI generated.

Minor sadness.

yatopifo 4 days ago [-]
Which dash is the following: — ? N or M?
quuxplusone 3 days ago [-]
— is U+2014 EM DASH. (Source: copy-paste into https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%E2%80%94 ) An en dash is shorter: –.
treetalker 4 days ago [-]
From my cold, dead hands.
FireBeyond 3 days ago [-]
From your cold — dead, in fact — hands?
heavensteeth 3 days ago [-]
His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.
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