Oh god, I just realized I've been using en dashes in place of em dashes all my life. Option-shift-dash, not option-dash.
to clarify: my surprise was in realizing I was not typing the character I thought I was
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I like the visual brake that an em dash makes in a sentence, and am annoyed at the use of mere dashes
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I couldn't tell you what an en dash is for without looking it up
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