You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd I do very much hope that "AI" will son be dust and ashes, and the em dash can return to its proper function.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd Team #emdash !
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
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@rickf ellipses, semicolon, and rule of three!
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@rickf ellipses, semicolon, and rule of three!
@dramypsyd That is ... an excellent saying --- truly!
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd they've always been out of my grasp due to a reliance on Windows and Linux. Having a keyboard without a numpad has really finished it.
It's a shame cus I do associate them with people that do the good writing with sentences and all.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd I wish AI had seized onto :-- instead, because that particular punctuation has largely fallen out of use.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd PREACH
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd I'm just happy to see uppercase letters and a period at the end of a sentence.

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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
So happy that in German – as well as my scientific environment – we're only using n-dashes.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd
"You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands..." -
@dramypsyd they've always been out of my grasp due to a reliance on Windows and Linux. Having a keyboard without a numpad has really finished it.
It's a shame cus I do associate them with people that do the good writing with sentences and all.
I have Emacs set up to make it easy to enter en-dash, em-dash, ellipsis, and proper quotation marks, but there are alternatives:
Insert En Dash ( – ) and Em Dash ( — ) on Linux: Here’s How
Looking to use appropriately long hyphens? Find out here how to insert en dash (–) and em dash (—) on Linux using keyboard.
La De Du (ladedu.com)
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd And making sure they have a little space around them, despite the pressure to exclude it (from editors and convention)!
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd It’s also called a mutton!
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd + 1 !
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd Me as well! I have found them very expressive—dynamic.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd I wasn’t expecting Em-Dash Hill to be the one I’d die on, but I’m right there with you.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
@dramypsyd
That, and my Oxford comma!