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I use both quite often. The apostrophe from a young age and the em-dash from my locally hosted alternative to grammarly which auto-corrects for me - making it
by hackernews1134 2y ago
I use both quite often. The apostrophe from a young age and the em-dash from my locally hosted alternative to grammarly which auto-corrects for me - making it easy to use as it doesn’t exist on my keyboard as a built-in. If it existed on my keyboard, I would use it by default.
(Noticeably absent is the em-dash in this message because my grammarly alternative is a chrome extension and I’m currently responding from my mobile device that does not have it.)
- throwing_away 2y agoI think you meant to use an "en-dash" there -- between "me" and "making". This whole thing is frustrating because I know all of these language models were trained on reddit and I was an early and frequent commenter. So a lot of my style is also the bot's style.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoI think they meant to use an em-dash, which is this: —. An en-dash is typically used for ranges, e.g. 20–30 miles per hour.
- hackernews1134 2y agoYes I did; an in the second paragraph of my post I explain why I didn’t in this instance.
- rounce 2y agoWhat is the self-hosted grammarly alternative you use?
- hackernews1134 2y agoIt is called languagetool