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@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social @Gargron@mastodon.social @grishka@friends.grishka.me @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io -, −, ー are completely different characters with literally no common uses  @puppygirlhornypost2 @Gargron @samhenrigold @grishka (Formal) German uses – a bunch but not —, but most people still use - by now since you can't type the former on most desktop keyboards here (but fancier word processors autocorrect - into – if it's surrounded by spaces). It's an interesting interaction with technology.  @puppygirlhornypost2 @Gargron @samhenrigold @grishka  Amber, "officially" there are two types of dashes in Russian punctuation, the short "дефис", used to connect multi-part words like "что-то", and the long "тире", used between words. Other languages have similar oddities, like I know that French has a special type of space that's used between a .!?: and its preceding word (and I don't even speak French).   @puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social @Gargron@mastodon.social @grishka@friends.grishka.me @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io |
@Gargron@mastodon.social @grishka@friends.grishka.me @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io linguistics is so fun. I’m still struggling to come to terms with the fact that minus is supposed to be a different length than a hyphen.