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I use em dashes all the time in writing, but unfortunately ChatGPT and co. use the em dash frequently—and most people use the em dash infrequently, not knowing
by rappatic 2y ago
I use em dashes all the time in writing, but unfortunately ChatGPT and co. use the em dash frequently—and most people use the em dash infrequently, not knowing how to type it on a keyboard—so it's starting to make my writing look AI-generated sometimes. I fear it'll have to go the way of words like "tapestry."
FWIW, you can type an em dash on Mac with shift + option + hyphen.
- fastball 2y agoI use them as well. For blog posts I suppose I'll need to switch to regular hyphens lest people think all my writing is LLM-spam. That said, I don't even think you need the [shift] for em dash on Mac – just [option] + [hyphen] works for me.
- contact9879 2y agoThat's an en-dash
- fastball 2y agoOh yeah, true. They look the exact same in the HN editor haha
- pama 2y agoEmbrace the confusion with the AI—it’s a sign of progress!
- keybored 2y agoThree^W Four top-level comments so far with this concern. Nice try AIs but I won’t downgrade my writing.