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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

em dashes, en dashes, and commas have different meanings and uses

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

aren't all of them "do a short pause"?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

For a speaker/listener, yes. But for a reader, it has additional value.
I don't remember where I first read em dashes, but there were times when I felt like something didn't quite match any of the others I usually use ^[parentheses, colons (inline or list-starters), semicolons] and ended up with a feeling that putting a dash over there made sense.
I also didn't know the terminologies for these different kinds of dashes, when I started using them.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

no.

comma: do a short pause
hyphen: connect two related concept words to loosely create a new word
en dash: signify a range
em dash: do an abrupt, possibly long, pause or signify an attribution
ellipses: do a trailing, possibly long, pause