Any mistakes that show up in what I write are honest mistakes. I make an effort.

I’ve used two hyphens as an en-dash for many years. As a graphic designer I had a macro that converted two hyphens to an en-dash, and three hyphens to an em-dash. I’ve noticed that I need to escape the hyphens for them to not be converted to a single hyphen--so, that’s what I do.

I don’t want to use actual en (–) and em-dashes (—), because they are associated with AI now.