today I have learned about the "three-em dash" ⸻ and this may make me *too* powerful

[independentpen@mas.to]

@wlonk @glyph dash dash mmdash

[jay@oldos.me]

@glyph Did you know that the 3M dash was invented by accident when they were trying to make a really strong adhesive?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@amethyst I could pioneer the "fediverse blowhard" wordmark:

⸻⁂⸻

[amethyst@toots.n7.gg]

@glyph straight into my veins please

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph @amethyst *considers updating .XCompose*

[glyph@mastodon.social]

I should cite my sources; I learned about it from this post https://www.acdw.net/my-em-dash-post.html

[curiously@mastodon.au]

@glyph yes yes! Combining its power with the misuse of the semicolon, this can unleash true darkness apon the world!
Mawahahahahaha!

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@Hyperlynx anti-aircraft punctuation

[timmc@better.boston]

@glyph Relatedly, the widest boi I know of: ﷽ U+FDFD

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

When you really want to emphasize that the dash represents a moment of silence when read out loud

[crapaud@mstdn.social]

@gureito @glyph
Surely you meant ^⸻^

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@glyph Mother of God.

[nik@nkantar.social]

@amethyst @glyph Asterism! (I’ll take this Extended Edition as well.)

[hostia@defcon.social]

@lw @glyph elicited a chuckle out of me

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@glyph I see this turbo-dash in Chinese a lot, to distinguish it from the common character 一, but it does make the pauses feel more dramatic to me

[inj4n@chaos.social]

@glyph I am more the bracketting type (I might have used it (grammatically (utterly) wrong but (on occasion) (even hree layers (or even more) deep))).

[hosford42@techhub.social]

@0xabad1dea @glyph Makes me think of Shatner's acting

[abekonge@venner.network]

@liaizon @glyph wwwooowww ⸻ is there even a two em one?

I have lately upgraded my em-game by learning to free hand type Unicode-chars with CTRL+SHIFT+u followed by codepoint and then ENTER. Em-dash is 2014 for example. Works on Debian at least

[cceckman@hachyderm.io]

@glyph brb, encoding watermarks in my dash lengths

[fivetonsflax@tilde.zone]

@glyph @vaurora The one L lama, he's a priest
The two L llama, he's a beast
And I will bet my silk pyjama
There isn't any three L lllama.
-- O. Nash