Longer than a hyphen, bolder than an en dash, and beloved—perhaps too beloved— by stylists, the em dash has always lived a double life: both elegant and unruly, formal and anarchic.
Perhaps it is just me, but I've got so used to drafting on google docs -- and more recently, Notion -- that I end up with these double hyphens when I'm writing on Substack...
Perhaps it is just me, but I've got so used to drafting on google docs -- and more recently, Notion -- that I end up with these double hyphens when I'm writing on Substack...
I think that speaks well of you :)