@OsakaWilson@lemmy.world explains how to use the em dash (—) and why they like it (!english@lemmy.ca)

The em dash is called the em dash because on old typewriters it was as long as an M. Why do I feel closer to this punctuation mark than the others? It could be partly because I ignored it for so long that it is the last punctuation mark that I got to know, and when I found it, I learned that it coul...