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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I definitely wasn't trying to write a list, it was a riddle or a conversation. What I was trying to do is this:

Though, it seems speech dash is not a thing in English. So I understand the confusion.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah its not a thing in English. In Spanish it is as well and learning to read novels in English was a bit confusing at first. I believe the official name is en dash or em dash I forget which

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Didn't really notice until now, though it seems some English speaking people used these dashes in their books apparently but I don't think I ever read one of them. It's hilarious to see these cultural differences may cause problems like this. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    You had me pondering…yes, quotation dash: it is a thing in English, just less common!

    Please disregard what I wrote before: you had it almost correct, but use quotation dashes ― as you suggested before. Some OSes offer nice character pickers for less common punctuation: for example, Windows summons it with WindowsKey-.. Apologies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    No worries. I tried to look on my English novels first but couldn't find anything like this. I was almost certain that I saw this in one of the Roald Dahls but nope. Well, learned the official name of it too, quotation dash. Thanks.

    By the way, Meta (Windows key) + . opens emoji list in KDE.

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