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Em dash is similar to the letter C in English.
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YICHM lemmy.world YICHM@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-28
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Both of them are irreplaceable.

E: There's a joke stating that the letter C can be replaced K and S (but "ch" can't be replaced by "kh" or "sh"). In a similar fashion, em dashes (commonly used to add relevent information like parentheses or to introduce a definition) has some of its usage overlapped with parentheses and colons, but still has some unique usages that can't be replaced.

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Darkcoffee sh.itjust.works Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-02-05
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And my grandma is a human like Usain Bolt, both can run.

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123 programming.dev 123@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-07-25
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And my grandma is a human like Usain Bolt, both can run.

And if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bycicle!

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PiraHxCx lemmy.dbzer0.com PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-01-03
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ch can be replaced with x in my language

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Archer lemmy.world Archer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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No

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Fleppensteyn feddit.nl Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl
Joined: 2023-06-09
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And my grandma is a human like Usain Bolt, both can run.

Just like my refrigerator

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Lucie (she/her) quokk.au SatansDaughter@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-05-15
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"ch" could be replaced by "tsh"

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Communist lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
Joined: 2024-07-06
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"ch" could be replaced by "tsh"

S, the harder to write character should be the one to go, this also adds compatibility with Cyrillic.

Sh should then be the one replaced.

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one_old_coder piefed.social one_old_coder@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-02-08
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YSK that em dash is also similar to the color green in Turkish.

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Tomtits lemmy.dbzer0.com blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-10
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And if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bycicle!

Pretty niche reference that mate

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