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em dash supremacy—my friend introduced me to this and i haven’t looked back since.

alt+0151 on PC, ctrl+alt+minus for word if I remember right. On mobile you go to more symbols, hold down the minus, and slide to the longest one.

Both require numeric keypad though- but using a minus and a space after can work as a substitute--as well as 2 minus signs (plus Lemmy happens to convert that to an em dash) - but like THAT? treason. absolutely not.

You can even join more than 2 independent clauses together as shown above.

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Can you explain to me why I shouldn’t just use a minus sign? What does the extra symbol bring to the table?

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I like to quote myself. Like “This is a meaningful sentence” would be an example.

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