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Most honest users of the em-dash use it in pairs. I have never — not once — seen an LLM use it in pairs.
by wjfuu32984 9mo ago
Most honest users of the em-dash use it in pairs.
I have never — not once — seen an LLM use it in pairs.
- lostlogin 9mo agoIsn’t that an endash? - versus —? Something weird is going on, on iOS I can type either but they look the same in my comment. Edit: Only before pressing reply. Once posted they look different.
- wjfuu32984 9mo agoYou're right, I had a similar issue with the form.
- majormajor 9mo agoYeah, LLMs seem to use it closer to a semicolon than a set of parentheses, which seems a bit more "fancy"/"inauthentic" IMO.
- tzot 9mo agoI always have been using em-dashes with specific spacing: 1. replacing parentheses —given that the em-dash in pairs for me mark more-relevant-to-the-main content than a parenthesized expression would— so I use the same spacing as `()` 2. replacing colon or just finishing the sentence with a subsentence— so the spacing goes like for a colon. Probably unfounded grammatically and against any style guides, but this spacing makes sense to me.
- estebank 9mo agoI am pretty sure an em-dash in case 2 should not have spaces in either side.
- rootusrootus 9mo agoThat's a good point! I nearly always use it in pairs.