Thread:The Many-Angled One/@comment-20551-20180708020424/@comment-4548390-20180708112645

Koavf wrote: "Hyphens are simpler in the sense that they can easily be found in any keyboard while en dashes cannot"

Sure--which is why they are oftentimes input in places where they do not belong. That doesn't justify *replacing* an en dash with a hyphen in a place where it's incorrect. (E.g., I used two hyphens in place of an em dash for convenience but I would not do that in the actual running text of the database as it's not proper punctuation.) From the moment something is used in a way that it originally wasn't and is highly accepted, it's not misuse anymore.

Koavf wrote: I guess you edited your comment but whether or not someone at Marvel misuses them is irrelevant. Yes, I did, but no, it's not irrelevant. That was just an example of how common that usage is.