Em Dash in Reddit Comments
jonatron.github.ioHard to correlate this to any real world events when the X axis is in days since epoch, rather than a human intelligible format.
2020 1577836800 15 2021 1609459200 16 2022 1640995200 16 2023 1672531200 16 2024 1704067200 17 2025 1735689600 17Hopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible
here you go https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq
What's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?
Looks like it auto-corrects -- to — https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all from iOS 11
iOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.
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
It's long been easy to type one on a Mac— option+shift+hyphen. The shortcut is mnemonic, even.
Here's a better version of the plot
Thanks, although it's annoying to access from the UK.
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.
Which dash is the following: — ? N or M?
— is U+2014 EM DASH. (Source: copy-paste into https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%E2%80%94 ) An en dash is shorter: –.
From my cold, dead hands.
From your cold — dead, in fact — hands?
His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.