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There are multiple em dashes present. I strongly suspect AI help.
by 650 11mo ago
There are multiple em dashes present. I strongly suspect AI help.
- aerostable_slug 11mo agoI hate this trend because I use em dashes a lot in my writing. Someone tell the AIs to throttle back on them a bit — people might think I'm using AI when I'm not.
- carsoon 11mo agoI don't understand how people use or got used to using em dahshes? How do you even type them? theres no button for it so are you manually inserting, copy pasting it and why not just use a hyphen - instead of an en dash? Was this taught in schools or is it some form of technical writing?
- anonymouskimmer 11mo agoSome office programs, and maybe even some blogging platforms, automatically turn two sequential hyphens into an em dash.
- aerostable_slug 11mo agoShift-Option-Hyphen. I don't know where I picked up the habit of using them. I think back in the day before there were such characters I used double hyphens, but it's been a minute — using the keyboard shortcut is essentially reflexive now.
- rc5150 11mo agoIt's the poor man's semi-colon, because a lot of folks never learned how to use it correctly. Now a lot of word processors automatically turn a double hyphen to the em-dash--and here we are.