Em dashes and emojis

  • JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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    12 days ago

    You can pry my em dashes — which I use regularly in writing because I love them — from my cold dead hands (To be fair, I really like parenthetical statements too, could be an ADHD thing).

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 days ago

        Some phones turn hyphens into an em dash.

        Fuck using an alt code though, I’m just gonna use a comma even when I shouldn’t

        • Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nl
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          12 days ago

          I use the EURKey layout, right alt becomes a modifier key that, among other changes, turns the dash into an em dash. It’s really nice, also for diacritics and such.

                • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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                  12 days ago

                  Dvorak. It’s a person’s name, so only the first letter is capitalised.

                  Anyway, that article uses a lot of words to come to…basically no conclusion whatsoever. I don’t know why anyone would link it when trying to make any sort of a point.

                  • TechLich@lemmy.world
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                    11 days ago

                    “No conclusion whatsoever” is basically the scientific consensus on whether Dvorak has any effect on efficiency or typing speed. It’s hard to get good data because it’s hard to isolate other factors and a lot of the studies on it are full of bias or have really small sample sizes (or both).

                    To anyone thinking of learning Dvorak, my advice is don’t. It takes ages to get good at, isn’t THAT much better and causes a lot of little annoyances when random programs decide to ignore your layout settings or you sit down at someone else’s computer and start touch typing in the wrong layout from muscle memory or games tell you to press “E” when they mean “.” or they do say “.” but it’s so small that you don’t know if it’s a dot or a comma and then you hit the wrong one and your guy runs forward and you die…

                    That said, I’m also a Dvorak user and it is very comfortable and satisfying and better than qwerty. Just not enough to be worth all the pain of switching.

                • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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                  10 days ago

                  Oh wow. I’ve actually never used Dvorak on mobile. I always like to tell people that the same thing that made QWERTY good on old mechanical typewriters, the thing that holds it back on modern keyboards, is what makes QWERTY good again in the algorithm-assisted typing of a modern touchscreen.

                  • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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                    9 days ago

                    I wouldn’t recommend it for touchscreens tbh. Having the common letters close to each other just causes problems. And autocorrect doesn’t seem to understand I’m using a Dvorak layout. I’m just used to it now and like to have my keyboards matching. It’s great for physical keyboards though.