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 ::::Happy to oblige. But in all seriousness I haven't the foggiest idea what you're saying in your post. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 18:31, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
 ::Perhaps I could instead ask for one example where a hyphen is used that could arguably be an emdash or conversely for an example of an emdash in use that could arguably be a hyphen? I am certainly wrong if you can—perhaps right if you can not.--[[User:John Cline|John Cline]] ([[User talk:John Cline#Top|talk]]) 19:02, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
+:::There's no such case that I can imagine, but I have no idea what you think this proves or illustrates. "I am certainly wrong if you can—perhaps right if you can not"{{snd}}wrong or right about ''what?'' There are cases where a ndash would be used in the most careful typesetting, but a ndash would be passable (though not ideal) in a less careful setting (e.g. {{tq|score was 5{{ndash}}2}} vs. {{tq|score was 5-2}}); but there's nowhere whatsoever that a hyphen can substitute for an emdash without looking absolutely awful:
+::::{{tq|{{nobr|He{{mdashb}}now with his wife{{mdashb}}went inside}}}}
+::::{{tq|{{nobr|He - now with his wife - went inside}}}}.
+:::[[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 20:32, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
 == The ''real'' comma wars ==