today I have learned about the "three-em dash" ⸻ and this may make me *too* powerful

[glyph@mastodon.social]

today I have learned about the "three-em dash" ⸻ and this may make me *too* powerful

[rgegriff@masto.hackers.town]

@glyph Minnesota Mining and Punctuation

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@glyph cursed punctuation

[wlonk@mastodon.transneptune.net]

@glyph mmmdash, by Hanson?

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@glyph to think of how *much* you can emphasize a dependent clause with that!

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@glyph Careful, eventually it just becomes <br/>!

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@glyph thank you for that Post⸻it note

[lw@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@glyph the ummm dash

[neurobashing@mastodon.social]

@glyph Strunk and White in a few years: "Fuck it, we're doing 5 em dashes" (with apologies to The Onion)

[bit@ohai.social]

@glyph ﷽

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@glyph wow⸻I⸻didn't⸻know⸻of⸻this⸻one

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@glyph for emmmphasis

[ewalthert@typo.social]

@liaizon @glyph Just learned about it, by mastering a font that included ⸻ one.
mmm
⸻
And it is true!

[kelson@notes.kvibber.com]

@glyph Is it sticky tape that can bind anything together if you use enough?