Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen
Oh this is easy.<p>m dash: --<p>n dash: -.<p>.. I take it few people find morse code puns funny anymore.<p>Seriously, what&#x27;s the point of this pedantry. What does having 3 basically identical characters add to the language other than a pointless rules for insufferable pedants to power trip over. We&#x27;ve all been using - just fine. On what basis does the person writing this article believe these rules matter, are important, disambiguate language?<p>Call me a hopeless philistine, but I say down with the dash. One symbol is fine for word-compounding, numerical ranges, subtraction, mid word line breaks. No one needs an em dash to tell them pages 3-8 is not a compound word.