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HikeyBoi t1_j3355x7 wrote

Reply to comment by MadCybertist in Swedish sledges; bought 40 years ago. Still in use. by joepinapples

It is a common typing convention to use two hyphens in place of an em dash if that does not come standard on the keyboard. Word processing software will sometimes correct two hyphens into an em dash. That is how I type them at work.

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MadCybertist t1_j33a9mt wrote

I mean, I get the em dash thing... but that doesn't really have anything to do with my comment. Unless I'm missing something.

There is a - in front of 100F making it negative 100F to 0F. Then -- comes after the 0F separating the temps and then finishing their sentence with 'and'.

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Apparently Reddit doesn't like jokes - but what they wrote is negative 100F to 0F. Which is why I made my joke.

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HikeyBoi t1_j33b4ew wrote

The commenter attempted to use two em dashes kind of like parentheses for a quick informative aside.

If your comment was an attempt at humor, I recommend entertaining only yourself next time. Reddit has become clogged with unfunny halfwitted quips that add nothing to the user experience other than having to wade through them all for the good stuff.

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dakta t1_j359kyl wrote

For pedantry, those are hyphen/minus characters. The widths of hyphen/minus, en dash, and em dash are different. They're three completely different characters, different Unicode code points and everything:

- hyphen/minus
\– en dash
\— em dash

And you can get to them easily from the iOS keyboard by long pressing on hyphen/minus.

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