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You shouldn't care so much what other people think about your writing style–makes life easier. Only negative people will bother you about it, the last type of MFer you should be taking criticism from.
Why don't you just use the - though? I never understood the need to remember the HTML code for the emdash when there's a dash on my keyboard.
Is this like a English major habit?
Usually when people us em dashes they just type a double hyphen: -- . I think in Word and similar programs that auto-corrects to being an em dash. Either way, it makes the text more legible since single hyphens already have several different uses.
I can't speak for whiskers165 but I can type an em dash by hitting shift+altgr+hyphen, and I use it because mmmmmm longboie
Altgr is truly beautiful, more keyboards should have it
The irony of using an EN dash in this comment about EM dashes