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Originally Posted by andym
Erm, I think you'll find that emdashes are very often used for parentheses.
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True but not always and the physical look is certainly different and the effect on the user experience when reading them is different, in my case at least. If they were the same as parentheses then why not use parentheses. emdashes are sometimes used as a cross between parentheses and ellipses.