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Personally, I hate these dashes, and it has nothing to do with LLMs. If you insist on using this hyphen look-alike punctuation, at least use it correctly: with
by johnea 5mo ago
Personally, I hate these dashes, and it has nothing to do with LLMs.
If you insist on using this hyphen look-alike punctuation, at least use it correctly: with spaces around it.
Otherwise, it's a hyphen. Whatever a "purpose— one" is?
Written english is a space delimited language. The hyphen makes multiple words into one pseudo-word.
Wherever you're using a dash, you should just use a comma, or maybe a semicolon.
Or, maybe you're minimememaxxing?
More nonsense in the new world...
- ghusto 5mo agoEmdash separates, hyphen concatonates, endash is the one that seems superfluous. Emdash is actually what people mean a lot of the time when they use parenthesis.
- johnea 5mo agoIf it's supposed to separate, then it should be surrounded with spaces...
- ghusto 5mo agoEither is acceptable: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-... Also, a comma is a pause — and what a wonderful thing — whilst an emdash is a tangent.