I’ve also used them to mix up containers of stuff. Nail polish, acrylic paint, and caked up onion/garlic powder.

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I used em dashes when SMS messages had 160 character limits to —really— put emphasis on words.

I also use them in place of semicolons — I find it easier to read and doesn’t remind people of English class.

It helps that I have been writing this way for a while. My MySpace had em dashes back when the smartest AI we had was IBM’s Watson.