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I'm not making this a personal attack, but emdash is everywhere in older texts, and rarely seen in memes, outside of the recent discussion about why AI likes th

I'm not making this a personal attack, but emdash is everywhere in older texts, and rarely seen in memes, outside of the recent discussion about why AI likes them so much. This almost seems like yelling at the clouds. Your preference is for a semicolon, yet you talk about lack of distinction from other punctuation?!?

johnea 1y ago
> everywhere in older texts A) This is just not the case, they've only become popular _because_ of the prevalence in LLM generated slop B) Even if it were, it doesn't stop them from sucking Semicolons have a space after them. Parenthesis have spaces. English (and most others) is a space delimited language (note the space demarcating that parenthetical statement from the rest of the sentence). Along with the indistinguishable difference from a hyphen, this adds up to suck. Let me quote from wikipedia: In modern Wit all printed Trash, is Set off with num'rous Breaks⸺and Dashes— This is probably why they mostly stopped appearing after the 1700s...