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blauditore
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A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Da...
Which languages are you talking about? It looks unfamiliar to me.
schoen
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Here's someone talking about an example in French:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-em-dash-usage.364...
I believe I've also seen it in Spanish and Portuguese.
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rafabulsing
11 days ago
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Brazilian here. That is indeed the standard way dialogue is represented in literature. We call the em-dash a "travessão".
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pbalau
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I think Romanian uses that too and it just occurred to me that "linie de dialog" is not dash, but em dash.
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