Eulogy for the Em Dash ( — )
Dev.to AI
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Robotics
In memory of the em dash ( - ), circa 1470-2024. Used with discernment for five centuries, debased in eighteen months. To you, noble horizontal bar, you who can no longer be used without being mistaken for a robot. The Typographer and the Algorithm A Fable (after La Fontaine) Master Typographer, perched upon his screen, Held in his shortcuts an em dash of fine design.