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I checked your post history. Posts from 2017 to 2020 have between 0 to 3 em-dashes per post, with an average of 2. This post has 52. Interesting!
by pton_xd 1y ago
I checked your post history. Posts from 2017 to 2020 have between 0 to 3 em-dashes per post, with an average of 2.
This post has 52.
Interesting!
- 0x6c75636964 1y agoSharp eye, pton_xd! I’ve definitely developed a (probably excessive) fondness for em-dashes and lost track of how liberally I sprinkled them throughout the post… Hard to have fresh eyes after staring at my own words for too long.
- jazzyjackson 1y agoHow is it you end up sprinkling them? Have you key binded n dashes to type m dashes instead? You have an editor that auto replaces two hyphens with an m dash?
- 0x6c75636964 1y agooption + shift + '-' and muscle memory :)
- jwilber 1y agoA stat no doubt brought to us by genai-automated scraping. FWIW, this post seems longer than most of OPs usual posts. I’ll also add: as a longtime user of em-dashes, the constant low-effort dismissal of any writing using an em-dash as “must be genai!” is super annoying. So much so that I’ve made an effort to stop using them in my writing. There’s some poetic irony in using genai to dismiss someone else’s work for perceived use of genai.