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Is this em dash thing some kind of joke? Or have people not notice that software (eg, iPhone keyboards) automatically insert the dashes when you type two hyphen
by anon373839 1y ago
Is this em dash thing some kind of joke? Or have people not notice that software (eg, iPhone keyboards) automatically insert the dashes when you type two hyphens in a row? (To type `--` and not `—` I had to type `- -` and then delete the space.)
- f33d5173 1y agoThere's a very clear trend line in the graph. Did iOS add this feature recently? Maybe a popular tiktok taught zoomers how to type em dashes?
- kps 1y agoA test would be to compare against technology-oriented subreddits where there isn't money on the table.
- dmonitor 1y agoreddit has been pushing itself as an "app" more than a website recently, and killed off a lot of third party apps in a move that drove off some longtime users. could just be a sign of a changing userbase, but I won't write off the idea that reddit is becoming more inhabited by bots.
- evilduck 1y agoAll of the measured subreddits in the linked repo also seem like grift-heavy subreddits to me. They're all the stereotypical "get rich selling pickaxes to miners" subs so seeing them infiltrated by "get rich using AI to sell pickaxes" seems almost expected to me. I'm curious if the trend was similar across all subreddits with a broader set of topics.
- rep_lodsb 1y agoDoes it also convert '...' into '…'? Been seeing that a lot more recently. Also 'naïve' (outside of Raymond Chen's blog), that one seems to have been happening for longer though. Personally, I can't stand such anti-features, and smartphone OSes seem to be full of them. Which is another reason besides the giant privacy invasion why some weird people (like me) don't use them or are aware of every new feature.
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