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		lostlogin 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe... I had a quick search, attempting to find a great author who hated em dashes and preferred the vastly superior en dash. I found nothing. This list of authors punctuation quirks is interesting though. https://lithub.com/the-punctuation-marks-loved-and-hated-by-...

phlakaton 5 days ago [–]

You want Robert Bringhurst, poet and typographic nerd. He gives them special withering attention in his Elements of Typographic Style. I think he referred to them as Victorian excrescences?

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