Neither is more or less dramatic than the other, to me, I’m afraid. The spaces do the work.
But I’d settle for either version without argument as long as the spaces are there. The em-dash with no spaces is like a hyphen saying “I know these two are supposed to be connected, but they’d both rather not be.” 
I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted on this thread yet. Here 'tis:
If we are going that far then ƿ should be allowed back (it is a wynn, but looks very thorn like).
Sounds like a ƿ ƿ situation.
A ful Eŋliʃ spelliŋ reform ƿud briŋ back meni lettərz, ænd introdūs oðerz for sounds ðæt hav bēn introdusd in ðə intervēniŋ þouzand yērz.
Ī for ƿon ƿelcom our neƿ orþografic overlordz.
Ahem. Mx Connor, accepted style for starting sentences or paragraphs with a number is to write it out. For example, seventy-four.
Thank you.
Your friendly old-fashioned and possibly inconsistent punctuator,
jyoti
In Japanese, they often use ～ instead of our straight em dash.
I think that this is better and so I have been trying to introduce it in English wherever possible.
I use the tilde to mean 'approximately ’
It’s not just a tilde (~); it’s like a big tilde (〜).
Doesn’t that just mean “more approximately”?
Oh its a ttiillddee
Oh, you and your Gaelic!
I feel you. Trying to turn off auto-incorrection of some things, like constructing dates or converting quotes, has cost so many person-hours that we could probably increase productivity just by writing by hand again…
Hey, come on. There are two O’s separated by a double U!
Ôùúö!
I see.
In typographic-speak, that’s a “swung dash”.
ん〜〜〜〜
It’s more of an Aaaaahh—at the back of the throat
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