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Folks with vaginas, I'm conducting some family comparative analysis and I'd like to know how many standard pieces of toilet paper do you use when wiping after a pee. I posted some comments with options to upvote if you like.

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[-] apostrofail@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

They have different meanings where the lengths help at a glance such as using en dash for a compound adjective or em dash for a longer pause for a clause. This aides in reading even if you only pick up on it subconsciously.

[-] Jeeve65@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago

How was this handled in the age of typewriters?

[-] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Using multiple consecutive hyphens. Some schools used -- for em-dash, others


(still used today in latex), and then -- for en-dash.

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