Musk says English rules should change: add spaces around em dashes, they're too long
elonmusk · x · 2026-11-06
Elon Musk argues English rules should change to put spaces around em dashes, since they currently resemble hyphenated words rather than parenthetical phrases, and "—" is unpleasantly long — the en dash "–" is a better length. The take lands amid ongoing jokes about AI-generated text overusing em dashes.
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