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alpaca128 on March 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em da...

I never heard about the "Deppen Leerzeichen" in the context of punctuation, but always when German texts split up compound words with a space for no reason.

groestl on March 12, 2023 [–]

I think that's the central meaning, but it's used for space before punctuation as well (just a random reference https://www.lass-andere-schreiben.de/blog/kategorie/schreibe...)

layer8 on March 12, 2023 | [–]

That's normally called https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenken.

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