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amingilani on June 2, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student proje...

Friendly reminder that em and en dashes were part of English well before ChatGPT was launched. Anecdotally, I’ve been using them forever and English isn’t even my native language.

yen223 on June 3, 2025 [–]

Also, a lot of programs autocorrect dashes to em-dashes.

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