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As a professional writer, I can confirm that my editors love to sprinkle em dahses excessively on my work. Personally, I'm more prone to excessive semicolon us

• mcv 1y ago
  I'm not a professional writer except of software, but both there and in my non-professional writing, I'm a lot more likely to use semicolons than em-dashes.
• bee_rider 1y ago
  As an unprofessional writer, I assume this is the result of wanting to make the text “punchier.”