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Some of us are older—and use en dash all the time.
by sroussey 1y ago
Some of us are older—and use en dash all the time.
- trollbridge 1y agoI’ve stopped using em and en dashes for this specific reason.
- throwanem 1y agoTo hell with that. It will be a bad day when someone accuses me of using AI to forge original work—a bad day for them, not for me.
- Veen 1y agoI just use commas or semi-colons where I would have previously used em dashes. It's annoying to have to adapt to avoid triggering people's faulty AI slop pattern matching, but the alternatives are perfectly fine.
- Spivak 1y agoI actually associate it with a younger writer, perhaps it skipped a generation. I can imagine that someone who grew up in a world where typing an em dash meant looking up an alt code would develop a style that avoids them—but it's only a long press of the - away on the device where I do most of my writing by volume so of course I'm going to use them.
- ezekiel68 1y agoI fell in love with them a long time ago when reading Nietzsche aphorisms.
- throwanem 1y agoSome of us even know where to find them on the iOS—and the Android—keyboard.
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y agoAnd some of us are the sort of nerds¹ who use Unicode numeric superscript characters for footnotes. ¹ An unstylish or socially awkward person generally devoted to intellectual, academic, or technical pursuits or interests.