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There's a difference between (this—this) and (this--this).
I will always use the latter because I am not bothering with typing allat.
I am not AI. Probably.
Probably.
There are three:
In flat text, use two hyphens for the m-dash and one for both hyphens and n-dash.
I use - for all of these
Speak for yourself.
As a large language model,
I have a script that turns this -- into this — on my computer, but tbf I'm probably an AI so that tracks.
Honestly might want to consider stopping using the script now. Double hyphens seems more human, at least for the time being
But why not just use this - this?
I use that for lists. Double hyphen is also more distinct.