I only recently learnt about how em-dashes had a separate name, thanks to its popularisation by people trying to detect LLMs.
Earlier, I just thought of them as just a longer dash and I used them when manually writing (often made them longer than 2 characters), but just used a normal dash when typing.
I only recently learnt about how em-dashes had a separate name, thanks to its popularisation by people trying to detect LLMs.
Earlier, I just thought of them as just a longer dash and I used them when manually writing (often made them longer than 2 characters), but just used a normal dash when typing.