impr(quotes): change em-dashes in English quotes to hyphens (@redfp) (#7785)

redfp · web-flow · commit 6a6e71d5cc6c · 2026-04-08T10:13:03.000+02:00
### Description Changed all em-dashes without surrounding spaces to hyphens with surrounding spaces. I did `Ctrl-F —` in English quotes and changed all instances where em-dashes were not surrounded by spaces. I came across this problem in quote 7669 and decided to fix others like it too.  ### Checks - [ ] Adding quotes? - Make sure to follow the [quotes documentation](https://github.com/monkeytypegame/monkeytype/blob/master/docs/QUOTES.md) - [ ] Make sure to include translations for the quotes in the description (or another comment) so we can verify their content. - [ ] Adding a language? - Make sure to follow the [languages documentation](https://github.com/monkeytypegame/monkeytype/blob/master/docs/LANGUAGES.md) - [ ] Add language to `packages/schemas/src/languages.ts` - [ ] Add language to exactly one group in `frontend/src/ts/constants/languages.ts` - [ ] Add language json file to `frontend/static/languages` - [ ] Adding a theme? - Make sure to follow the [themes documentation](https://github.com/monkeytypegame/monkeytype/blob/master/docs/THEMES.md) - [ ] Add theme to `packages/schemas/src/themes.ts` - [ ] Add theme to `frontend/src/ts/constants/themes.ts` - [ ] (optional) Add theme css file to `frontend/static/themes` - [ ] Add some screenshots of the theme, especially with different test settings (colorful, flip colors) to your pull request - [ ] Adding a layout? - [ ] Make sure to follow the [layouts documentation](https://github.com/monkeytypegame/monkeytype/blob/master/docs/LAYOUTS.md) - [ ] Add layout to `packages/schemas/src/layouts.ts` - [ ] Add layout json file to `frontend/static/layouts` - [ ] Adding a font? - Make sure to follow the [fonts documentation](https://github.com/monkeytypegame/monkeytype/blob/master/docs/FONTS.md) - [ ] Add font file to `frontend/static/webfonts` - [ ] Add font to `packages/schemas/src/fonts.ts` - [ ] Add font to `frontend/src/ts/constants/fonts.ts` - [x] Check if any open issues are related to this PR; if so, be sure to tag them below. - [x] Make sure the PR title follows the Conventional Commits standard. (https://www.conventionalcommits.org for more info) - [x] Make sure to include your GitHub username prefixed with @ inside parentheses at the end of the PR title.
diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json
@@ -38675,16 +38675,16 @@
       "length": 704
     },
     {
-      "text": "In inner cities, some buildings are beautiful and clean, while others are rotting hulks. Why? Researchers in the field of crime and urban decay discovered a fascinating trigger mechanism, one that very quickly turns a clean, intact, inhabited building into a smashed and abandoned derelict. A broken window. One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment—a sense that the powers that be don’t care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short span of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner’s desire to fix it, and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.",
+      "text": "In inner cities, some buildings are beautiful and clean, while others are rotting hulks. Why? Researchers in the field of crime and urban decay discovered a fascinating trigger mechanism, one that very quickly turns a clean, intact, inhabited building into a smashed and abandoned derelict. A broken window. One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment - a sense that the powers that be don’t care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short span of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner’s desire to fix it, and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.",
       "source": "The Pragmatic Programmer (2nd Edition)",
       "id": 7659,
-      "length": 763
+      "length": 765
     },
     {
-      "text": "The three soldiers returning home from war were hungry. When they saw the village ahead their spirits lifted—they were sure the villagers would give them a meal. But when they got there, they found the doors locked and the windows closed. After many years of war, the villagers were short of food, and hoarded what they had. Undeterred, the soldiers boiled a pot of water and carefully placed three stones into it. The amazed villagers came out to watch. \"This is stone soup,\" the soldiers explained. \"Is that all you put in it?\" asked the villagers. \"Absolutely—although some say it tastes even better with a few carrots…\" A villager ran off, returning in no time with a basket of carrots from his hoard. A couple of minutes later, the villagers again asked \"Is that it?\" \"Well,\" said the soldiers, \"a couple of potatoes give it body.\" Off ran another villager. Over the next hour, the soldiers listed more ingredients that would enhance the soup: beef, leeks, salt, and herbs. Each time a different villager would run off to raid their personal stores. Eventually they had produced a large pot of steaming soup. The soldiers removed the stones, and they sat down with the entire village to enjoy the first square meal any of them had eaten in months.",
+      "text": "The three soldiers returning home from war were hungry. When they saw the village ahead their spirits lifted - they were sure the villagers would give them a meal. But when they got there, they found the doors locked and the windows closed. After many years of war, the villagers were short of food, and hoarded what they had. Undeterred, the soldiers boiled a pot of water and carefully placed three stones into it. The amazed villagers came out to watch. \"This is stone soup,\" the soldiers explained. \"Is that all you put in it?\" asked the villagers. \"Absolutely - although some say it tastes even better with a few carrots…\" A villager ran off, returning in no time with a basket of carrots from his hoard. A couple of minutes later, the villagers again asked \"Is that it?\" \"Well,\" said the soldiers, \"a couple of potatoes give it body.\" Off ran another villager. Over the next hour, the soldiers listed more ingredients that would enhance the soup: beef, leeks, salt, and herbs. Each time a different villager would run off to raid their personal stores. Eventually they had produced a large pot of steaming soup. The soldiers removed the stones, and they sat down with the entire village to enjoy the first square meal any of them had eaten in months.",
       "source": "The Pragmatic Programmer (2nd Edition)",
       "id": 7660,
-      "length": 1252
+      "length": 1256
     },
     {
       "text": "There’s an old(ish) joke about a company that places an order for 100,000 ICs with a Japanese manufacturer. Part of the specification was the defect rate: one chip in 10,000. A few weeks later the order arrived: one large box containing thousands of ICs, and a small one containing just ten. Attached to the small box was a label that read: \"These are the faulty ones.\"",
@@ -38693,10 +38693,10 @@
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     },
     {
-      "text": "You’re communicating only if you’re conveying what you mean to convey—just talking isn’t enough. To do that, you need to understand the needs, interests, and capabilities of your audience.",
+      "text": "You’re communicating only if you’re conveying what you mean to convey - just talking isn’t enough. To do that, you need to understand the needs, interests, and capabilities of your audience.",
       "source": "The Pragmatic Programmer (2nd Edition)",
       "id": 7662,
-      "length": 188
+      "length": 190
     },
     {
       "text": "It’s six o’clock on Friday afternoon, following a week when the auditors have been in. Your boss’s youngest is in the hospital, it’s pouring rain outside, and the commute home is guaranteed to be a nightmare. This probably isn’t a good time to ask her for a memory upgrade for your laptop.",
@@ -38711,10 +38711,10 @@
       "length": 1580
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     {
-      "text": "Many industries use prototypes to try out specific ideas; prototyping is much cheaper than full-scale production. Car makers, for example, may build many different prototypes of a new car design. Each one is designed to test a specific aspect of the car—the aerodynamics, styling, structural characteristics, and so on. Old school folks might use a clay model for wind tunnel testing, maybe a balsa wood and duct tape model will do for the art department, and so on. The less romantic will do their modeling on a computer screen or in virtual reality, reducing costs even further. In this way, risky or uncertain elements can be tried out without committing to building the real item.",
+      "text": "Many industries use prototypes to try out specific ideas; prototyping is much cheaper than full-scale production. Car makers, for example, may build many different prototypes of a new car design. Each one is designed to test a specific aspect of the car - the aerodynamics, styling, structural characteristics, and so on. Old school folks might use a clay model for wind tunnel testing, maybe a balsa wood and duct tape model will do for the art department, and so on. The less romantic will do their modeling on a computer screen or in virtual reality, reducing costs even further. In this way, risky or uncertain elements can be tried out without committing to building the real item.",
       "source": "The Pragmatic Programmer (2nd Edition)",
       "id": 7665,
-      "length": 684
+      "length": 686
     },
     {
       "text": "To some extent, all answers are estimates. It’s just that some are more accurate than others. So the first question you have to ask yourself when someone asks you for an estimate is the context in which your answer will be taken. Do they need high accuracy, or are they looking for a ballpark figure?",
@@ -38735,10 +38735,10 @@
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-      "text": "The word bug has been used to describe an \"object of terror\" ever since the fourteenth century. Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper, the inventor of COBOL, is credited with observing the first computer bug—literally, a moth caught in a relay in an early computer system. When asked to explain why the machine wasn’t behaving as intended, a technician reported that there was “a bug in the system,” and dutifully taped it— wings and all—into the log book.",
+      "text": "The word bug has been used to describe an \"object of terror\" ever since the fourteenth century. Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper, the inventor of COBOL, is credited with observing the first computer bug - literally, a moth caught in a relay in an early computer system. When asked to explain why the machine wasn’t behaving as intended, a technician reported that there was “a bug in the system,” and dutifully taped it - wings and all - into the log book.",
       "source": "The Pragmatic Programmer (2nd Edition)",
       "id": 7669,
-      "length": 448
+      "length": 453
     },
     {
       "text": "A very simple but particularly useful technique for finding the cause of a problem is simply to explain it to someone else. The other person should look over your shoulder at the screen, and nod his or her head constantly (like a rubber duck bobbing up and down in a bathtub). They do not need to say a word; the simple act of explaining, step by step, what the code is supposed to do often causes the problem to leap off the screen and announce itself.",
@@ -38921,10 +38921,10 @@
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     },
     {
-      "text": "Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.",
+      "text": "Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.",
       "source": "Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People",
       "id": 7700,
-      "length": 139
+      "length": 141
     },
     {
       "text": "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.",
