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They should include users who used a double hyphen, too -- not everyone has easy access to em dashes.
by maplethorpe 11mo ago
They should include users who used a double hyphen, too -- not everyone has easy access to em dashes.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoOof, I feel like you'll accidentally capture a lot of getopt_long() fans. ;)
- Kinrany 11mo agoExcluding those with asymmetrical whitespace around might be enough
- gblargg 11mo agoDoes AI use double hyphens? I thought the point was to find who wasn't AI that used proper em dashes.
- jader201 11mo agoAnytime I do this — and I did it long before AI did — they are always em dashes, because iOS/macOS translates double dashes to em dashes. I think there may be a way to disable this, but I don’t care enough to bother. If people want to think my posts are AI generated, oh well.
- teiferer 11mo agoThere is also the difference in using space around em-dashes.
- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> Anytime I do this — and I did it long before AI did — they are always em dashes It depends if you put the space before and after the dashes--that, to be clear, are meant to be there--or if you don't.
- oniony 11mo agoI cannot remember ever reading a book where there was a space around the dashes.
- kuschku 11mo agoThat depends on the language — whereas German puts spaces around —, English afaik usually doesn’t. Similarly, French puts spaces before and after ? ! while English and German only put spaces afterwards. [EDIT: I originally wrote that French treats . , ! ? specially. In reality, french only treats ? and ! specially.]
- iLoveOncall 11mo agoFrench doesn't put one before the period.
- bratwurst3000 11mo agofrench does "," and "." like the british and germans the rest is space befor space after
- greenicon 11mo agoIn German you use en-dashes with spaces, whereas in English it’s em-dashes without spaces. Some people dislike em-dashes in English though and use en-dashes with spaces as well.
- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> whereas in English it’s em-dashes without spaces Didn't know! Woot, I win! Why does AI have a preference for doing it differently?
- dragonwriter 11mo agoIn English, typically em-dashes are set without spaces or with thin spaces when used to separate appositives/parentheticals (though that style isn't universal even in professional print, there are places that aet them open, and en-dashes set open can also be used in this role); when representating an interruption, they generally have no space before but frequently have space following. And other uses have other patterns.
- bigiain 11mo agoThat would false positive me. I have used double dashes to delimit quote attribution for decades. Like this: "You can't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln, personal correspondence, 1863
- dragonwriter 11mo agoThat's literally a standard use of em-dash being approximated by a double hyphen, though.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoDouble-hyphen is an en-dash. Triple-hyphen is an em-dash.
- dragonwriter 11mo agoDouble hyphen is replaced in some software with an en-dash (and in those, a triple hyphen is often replaced with an em-dash), and in some with an em-dash; its usually used (other than as input to one of those pieces of software) in places where an em-dash would be appropriate, but in contexts where both an em-dash set closed and an en-dash set open might be used, it is often set open. So, it’s not unambiguously s substitute for either is essentially its own punctuation mark used in ASCII-only environments with some influence from both the use of em-dashed and that of en-dashes in more formal environments.