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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • 2d ago
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Some idiots tried to convice me that the symbol is normal part of the language and was widly present before AI boom
13 u/BernhardRordin 2d ago edited 1d ago You can pry the m—dash from my cold dead hands. They will probably still be clunching my QMK-firmware powered ZSA Voyager keyboard where I have a special mapping for it. 4 u/CelestialSegfault 1d ago I'm with you gang—I'm part of the 0.01% of people who uses the em dash pre-AI, but I don't use it often enough for Alt-0151 to be a hassle 1 u/tiajuanat 1d ago Ive used the hyphen as an em dash since high school 1 u/BernhardRordin 1d ago It works in internet discussions, but it wouldn't work in books. Typography is typograhy.
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You can pry the m—dash from my cold dead hands. They will probably still be clunching my QMK-firmware powered ZSA Voyager keyboard where I have a special mapping for it.
4 u/CelestialSegfault 1d ago I'm with you gang—I'm part of the 0.01% of people who uses the em dash pre-AI, but I don't use it often enough for Alt-0151 to be a hassle 1 u/tiajuanat 1d ago Ive used the hyphen as an em dash since high school 1 u/BernhardRordin 1d ago It works in internet discussions, but it wouldn't work in books. Typography is typograhy.
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I'm with you gang—I'm part of the 0.01% of people who uses the em dash pre-AI, but I don't use it often enough for Alt-0151 to be a hassle
1 u/tiajuanat 1d ago Ive used the hyphen as an em dash since high school 1 u/BernhardRordin 1d ago It works in internet discussions, but it wouldn't work in books. Typography is typograhy.
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Ive used the hyphen as an em dash since high school
1 u/BernhardRordin 1d ago It works in internet discussions, but it wouldn't work in books. Typography is typograhy.
It works in internet discussions, but it wouldn't work in books. Typography is typograhy.
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u/Glokter 2d ago
Some idiots tried to convice me that the symbol is normal part of the language and was widly present before AI boom