> 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

> 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...