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KPGv2 on March 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe...

> Some style guides recommend "space, en dash, space" for this

Which one does that? I threw up a little in my mouth and wish to avoid such style guides in the future!

lxgr on March 28, 2025 | [–]

Better avoid British journalism then, and many other languages on top of that.

It’s very common outside of America, even in English.

mmooss on March 28, 2025 | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501482

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