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0 pointskick6y ago0 comments

"Apple-supplied."

That's what they do elsewhere:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202471

https://support.apple.com/guide/terminal/script-management-w...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201954

For less ambiguity, I should have used the term "hyphen," but imagined it would be clear.

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briandear6y ago· 2 in thread

Fascinating. A hyphen and a dash are two completely different things. A dash isn’t ambiguous at all, it’s literally the wrong word. Those who live in glass houses..

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/hyphens-and-dashes/

kickOP6y ago

Digitally, they're _the exact same thing,_ represented by the exact same code point:*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus

The figure dash _literally_ serves the same purpose as the hyphen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Figure_dash

ASCII was limited, compromises were made, and "dash" and "hyphen" became interchangeable.

Most style guides accept both under the term "dash":

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/H...

* Unicode has changed this somewhat, though not perfectly.

Bonus:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/...

Hyphens are a form of dash (-) which we use between words or parts of words.

jsjohnst6y ago

Feels very disingenuous to critique grammar, while using bad grammar yourself, and then rebuke the person who calls it out politely.

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