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

[glyph@mastodon.social]

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

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@glyph cursed punctuation

[wlonk@mastodon.transneptune.net]

@glyph mmmdash, by Hanson?

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@glyph to think of how *much* you can emphasize a dependent clause with that!

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@glyph Careful, eventually it just becomes <br/>!

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@glyph thank you for that Post⸻it note

[lw@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@glyph the ummm dash

[neurobashing@mastodon.social]

@glyph Strunk and White in a few years: "Fuck it, we're doing 5 em dashes" (with apologies to The Onion)

[bit@ohai.social]

@glyph ﷽

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@glyph for emmmphasis

[ewalthert@typo.social]

@liaizon @glyph Just learned about it, by mastering a font that included ⸻ one.
mmm
⸻
And it is true!

[kelson@notes.kvibber.com]

@glyph Is it sticky tape that can bind anything together if you use enough?

[rodneylives@mefi.social]

@glyph Only the super-MEGA AIs use that one.

[amethyst@toots.n7.gg]

@glyph that’s one way to set yourself apart from the slop

[gureito@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph responsibly empowered, i hope ^_^

[beadsland@beige.party]

@glyph

Basically "id." for those who'd rather stroke it out.

[misterdave@tilde.zone]

@glyph for when your speaker is cut off so badly that they have to slam on the breaks to avoid a crash

[independentpen@mas.to]

@glyph wait'll you see what happens to authors with multiple citations in the bibliography!

[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?