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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I would assume to save typing the leading dash (usually an em dash)
IIRC languages that mark dialogue with a leading dash, such as Russian, only use a trailing dash if the speech is broken by a dialogue descriptor followed by more speech.
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Exactly, BetterRed. Central European countries also mark dialogues with dashes. My language is among them. We use quotation marks for ...quoting only or for metaphores.
