• TomasEkeli@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    not actually a hyphen, a minus (not that this matters to me in the slightest)

    I’m sorry, but “the pause is too weak” sounds squarely in the area of faffery to me.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      hyphen and minus is the same punctuation symbol in different contexts, at least how most people, including you, signify the mathematical symbol.

      • hyphen: -
      • minus: -
      • en-dash: –
      • em-dash: —

      so… yeah. pretty clear it doesn’t matter to you since you speak authoritatively about it while being incorrect

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            1 day ago

            it’s like being an atheist and therefore not caring about the details of transsubstantiation. irrelevance.

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              it’s interesting you would phrase your simile like that because it seems much more like being an atheist and then having a strong opinion that the miracle of transubstantiation happens in the hindgut, even though no theology calls for that.

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      It’s more along the lines of the comma is too weak for the pause. Likewise, there are places where the em dash is too strong for the pause.