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Unfortunately the em dash has already been relegated to the dungeon of AI suspicion for the next 5-10 years.
by Fade_Dance 1y ago
Unfortunately the em dash has already been relegated to the dungeon of AI suspicion for the next 5-10 years.
- sho_hn 1y agoMy workaround (well, to be honest, I've always done this: I love a good em dash, they're terrifically satisfying to use, but I'm too lazy to type them), is to use two single dashes--like so.
- adastra22 1y agoMy editor turns two single dashes into an em-dash—like this. (iOS)
- al_borland 1y agoDepending on your editor, your double dash method may auto-convert to an em dash.
- nick49488171 1y agoDo you also end ambiguously questioning messages with a double dot..
- sho_hn 1y agoNo.
- adastra22 1y agoI often edit things in Word — I have a document that I can alt-tab to and type things. It has spellcheck, etc. that my browser window does not, and I’m not at risk of losing if I refresh or something. Then copy-paste back. Word converts any - into an em dash based on context. Guess who’s always accused of being a bot? The thing is, AI learned to use these things because it is good typographical style represented in its training set.
- knowitnone2 1y agoall your Word docx are belong to Microsoft
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- johnisgood 1y agoI do the same most of the time, and LibreOffice converts "-" to an em-dash, for one, too.
- bonoboTP 1y agoIt's not a suspicion in an also otherwise properly typeset PDF, but it's a suspicion in a YouTube comment or other informal context for sure.
- the_af 1y agoI have used "--" since forever, here, on reddit, in emails, etc (I'm too lazy to type a proper em dash). Hope AI didn't ruin this for me!
- viccis 1y agoGood. It's a crutch for poorly composed sentences or for prose intending to imitate the affect of poorly composed sentences. There's not a single sentence under the sun that needs an emdash. Commas and parentheses can do it all, and an excess of either is a sign of poorly edited prose. I don't buy the pro-clanker pro-em dash movement that has come out of nowhere in the past several years.
- esseph 1y agoHm clankers, squids, and bugs?!?
- what 1y ago>pro-em dash movement that has come out of nowhere Bots that are trying to convince you they’re human..
- johnisgood 1y agoMore like humans that are using bots that are trying to convince you they are not using the bots. :D
- jibal 1y ago> prose intending to imitate the affect of poorly composed sentences Anyone who makes errors like this should not be talking.
- slipperydippery 1y agoWhat's the error? I'd hyphenate "poorly-composed" (most wouldn't these days, but they can go to hell) and I think it's a bit too wordy for what it's communicating, but I don't see what I'd call an actual error. I would personally avoid writing that "poorly composed sentences" have an "affect"—rather than the writer having or presenting an affect, or the sentences' tone being affected—as I find an implied anthropomorphizing of "sentences" in that usage, which anthropomorphizing isn't serving enough useful purpose, to my eye, that I'd want it in my writing, but I'm not sure I'd call that an error either. What did you mean? > Commas and parentheses can do it all, and an excess of either is a sign of poorly edited prose. This attitude, however, is a disease of modern English literacy.
- the_af 1y agoDammit -- I use my dashes all the time (though always double them like here). I hope AI didn't ruin this for me. (I learned to use dashes like this from Philip Dick's writings, of all places, and it stuck. Bet nobody ever thought of looking for writing style in PKD!).
- wiml 1y agoI encountered the TeXbook at a young and impressionable age, and ever since I've used em- and en-dashes a bit more often than a style guide would suggest. Not to mention diareses, though those haven't been flagged as LLM stigmata yet.