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Everyone please just stop with the em dash hysteria. You just tried to use one yourself — apparently you just don’t know how to type it.
by wrs 1y ago
Everyone please just stop with the em dash hysteria. You just tried to use one yourself — apparently you just don’t know how to type it.
- indigodaddy 1y agoI use emdashes like this-- see the difference
- wrs 1y agoYes I do — and that’s not an em dash, it’s two hyphens. You’re not using a manual typewriter, you have Unicode. You don’t make an exclamation point from an apostrophe and a period, do you?
- FergusArgyll 1y agoWe'll find out in an hour, but I bet openai trained em-dashes out of gpt-5 and that will confuse a lot of people. At least you'll be able to write the way you want to...