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		bigiain 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Search tool that only returns content created befo... That would false positive me. I have used double dashes to delimit quote attribution for decades. Like this: "You can't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln, personal correspondence, 1863

dragonwriter 48 days ago [–]

That's literally a standard use of em-dash being approximated by a double hyphen, though.

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