> I’ve even seen people say that em dashes are indicative, I guess those people neither care about good writing nor know that em dashes are as easy as option + shift + hyphen on a Mac.
They are virtually indistinguishable from regular dashes (unless you're specifically looking for them), and contribute nothing of significant value to the text itself. They were only ever a marker of "this is either professionally edited, or written by a pedant".
They are virtually indistinguishable from regular dashes (unless you're specifically looking for them), and contribute nothing of significant value to the text itself. They were only ever a marker of "this is either professionally edited, or written by a pedant".