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My language doesn’t really have hyphenated words or different dashes. It’s mostly punctuation within a sentence. As such there are almost no cases where one encounters a dash without spaces.

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Sternhammer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sounds wonderful. I recently had my writing—which is liberally sprinkled with em-dashes—edited to add spaces to conform to the house style and this made me sad.

I also feel sad that I failed to (ironically) mention the under-appreciated semicolon; punctuation that is not as adamant as a full stop but more assertive than a comma. I should use it more often.

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- mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I rarely find good use for a semicolon sadly.
  
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elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What language is this?

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- mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Lithuanian. We do have composite words, but we use vowel, if necessary, as connecting sounds. Otherwise dashes usually signify either dialog or explanations in a sentence (there’s more nuance, of course).
  
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