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The amount of em—dashes in there exhausted me lol
by AkashKaStudio 1y ago
The amount of em—dashes in there exhausted me lol
- plainOldText 1y agoWe used to infer one’s mind from their writing. Nowadays? I’m surprised people are too lazy to even remove them dashes. Well, in fact it might actually be a good thing for one can spot when something was AI generated much easier. I feel like original writing is pretty much dead these days. We’re all best selling authors now.
- sd9 1y agoThis reads like original writing to me. Too creative for LLMs, at least based on my experience.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI've been (over) using em-dashes ever since I discovered them. I have no intention of changing. Curiously, I find in editing my dad's auto-biography that a certain generation went crazy over-inserting commas — wherever they think you might want to pause to take a breath or something. To my eye (ear?) the result is a staccato sentence. But the truth is I know nothing about grammar rules — I slept through sentence diagramming in elementary school.
- PartiallyTyped 1y agoI used em-dashes before ChatGPT became a thing, I will keep using them.
- SethMurphy 1y agoI have started using —ahem— em dashes more regularly so people think I am as smart —well clever at least— as AI.
- drooby 1y agoIt's not just about using well placed em dashes — it's about creating a sense of awe and enlightenment.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI agree. I could drop using em-dashes. I feel though like the narrative feels broken up. It stops and starts too frequently.
- robocat 1y agoI'd like to do a study whether there's a correlation between liking emdashes and disliking curly brace languages. I find emdashes hard to parse and I don't like them without extra spacing. The punctuation in English feels kinda sucky (and implicit variables suck) compared to some programming languages.