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Sorry but I call bullshit. There’s em-dashes all over, even in your original text. Were the editors or translators an AI? Did the editors use AI to “polish” it?

Sorry but I call bullshit. There’s em-dashes all over, even in your original text. Were the editors or translators an AI? Did the editors use AI to “polish” it? The emojis used in the bullet points (which are missing from your original text, but were added in at some point) are also dead giveaways that AI was involved here.

Sharparam 5mo ago
The em dash "gotcha" is so fucking tiring at this point. It is perfectly possible, and even easy, to write e[nm] dashes manually. With compose key sequences it's barely more effort than typing a normal dash/hyphen, even. (Just compose key + `-.` for en dash, and `--` for em dash.)
- ValdikSS 5mo ago
  I can't understand why people defend improper typography. If you're writing a proper, professional-looking blog post, they think you now should use double-minus -- instead of em-dash to make it look non-AI like, only for that reason? In Russia, we have many typography keyboards/addons, because, well, it historically looked very silly to use double-minus or "-quotes instead of «»-quotes. I've no idea how some countries got their typography standardized on the PCs and have it from the very beginning (Germany with their quotes for example), but the other countries need to setup external software and configuration. Apparently, US also didn't got their "third level" keyboard as a standard.
galleywest200 5mo ago
I used em-dashes before Gen AI was a thing and I refuse to stop using them. Doing so is admitting the AI companies won. I am not going to change the way I write just to appease some terminally online folks who lack the ability to understand that LLMs learned to write from our writings.
chupasaurus 5mo ago
Then eat a pile of different dashes made by the same guy back in 2013 [0]. [0] https://habr.com/ru/articles/191654/ https://habr.com/ru/articles/191654/
petu 5mo ago
formal Russian is 'em dash heavy', here's South Korea Wikipedia arcticle in Russian, Dec 2021 version: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%8F&oldid=119002098 https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%8... Ignoring references, just in article text: 5800 words (spaces); 78 em dashes (1.3%); 0 en dashes; 90 hyphens (1.5%). English version of same timeframe: 16000 words; 0 em dashes; 32 en dashes (0.2%); 262 hyphens (1.6%). > The emojis used in the bullet points They're used in one list, where sub-projects are listed. Emojis used in that list are consistent with ones used for same sub-projects on Wiki https://docs.flipper.net/one https://docs.flipper.net/one Someone thought it would be better than plain text, that's it.

Sharparam 5mo ago

The em dash "gotcha" is so fucking tiring at this point. It is perfectly possible, and even easy, to write e[nm] dashes manually. With compose key sequences it's barely more effort than typing a normal dash/hyphen, even. (Just compose key + `-.` for en dash, and `--` for em dash.)

ValdikSS 5mo ago
I can't understand why people defend improper typography. If you're writing a proper, professional-looking blog post, they think you now should use double-minus -- instead of em-dash to make it look non-AI like, only for that reason? In Russia, we have many typography keyboards/addons, because, well, it historically looked very silly to use double-minus or "-quotes instead of «»-quotes. I've no idea how some countries got their typography standardized on the PCs and have it from the very beginning (Germany with their quotes for example), but the other countries need to setup external software and configuration. Apparently, US also didn't got their "third level" keyboard as a standard.

galleywest200 5mo ago

I used em-dashes before Gen AI was a thing and I refuse to stop using them. Doing so is admitting the AI companies won. I am not going to change the way I write just to appease some terminally online folks who lack the ability to understand that LLMs learned to write from our writings.

chupasaurus 5mo ago

Then eat a pile of different dashes made by the same guy back in 2013 [0]. [0] https://habr.com/ru/articles/191654/ https://habr.com/ru/articles/191654/

petu 5mo ago

formal Russian is 'em dash heavy', here's South Korea Wikipedia arcticle in Russian, Dec 2021 version: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%8F&oldid=119002098 https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%8... Ignoring references, just in article text: 5800 words (spaces); 78 em dashes (1.3%); 0 en dashes; 90 hyphens (1.5%). English version of same timeframe: 16000 words; 0 em dashes; 32 en dashes (0.2%); 262 hyphens (1.6%). > The emojis used in the bullet points They're used in one list, where sub-projects are listed. Emojis used in that list are consistent with ones used for same sub-projects on Wiki https://docs.flipper.net/one https://docs.flipper.net/one Someone thought it would be better than plain text, that's it.