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Am I the only person that didn't know there's a difference between a hyphen and an em-dash?

In some ways, why? The hyphen is-right-there on my keyboard — but no, I'm not allowed to use it, it has to be a dash — and in pairs only! What-the-fuck!

Is it a native English speaker thing? We never seem to know how the language actually works - also what the hell is an insert key?

Oops I did it again!

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/hyphenanddash/hyphen

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/hyphenanddash/dash