It’s a little hard to explain without coming across as pedantic. The Wikipedia article on the “Dash” does a pretty good job of it. Compare en dash to em dash. Or just read the “Usage” sub-section under “Em dash”. I used to use the em dash (occasionally) in my writing but now I try to avoid it, thanks to AI over-using it.
Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks agoWhat makes them useful compared to other punctuation like hyphens?
Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hyphens are for, you know hyphenating.
Such as in well-known.
Emdashes add emphasis and provide visual breaks.
Its weird that AI glommed onto then so much though.