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anotherSeggsOffender t1_iudjhj3 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:50 PM

Reply to comment by frenchtoaster in ELI5: Morse code is made up of dots and dashes. How did telegraph operators keep from losing track of where one letter ended and another began? by copperdomebodhi

Your formatting is off

- is T

>!use a \ to “cancel” the formatting Reddit uses. \ - makes a dash!<

frenchtoaster t1_iue40yg wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:14 PM

It shows up as a dash to me without backslash?

anotherSeggsOffender t1_iueopno wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:29 PM

Maybe your client is just weird? Reddit markdown treats dashes as list items, so it looks like this on Apollo and in browser