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They also have no spaces around the em dash. Must be followers of Chicago Manual of Style (and not AP Stylebook.)
by maratc 4mo ago
They also have no spaces around the em dash. Must be followers of Chicago Manual of Style (and not AP Stylebook.)
- bflesch 4mo agoOr we follow Occam's razor and accept that a random guy whose comment looks like AI in a tech forum discussing AI is not an advanced scribe following a certain school of writing, but rather some vibe coder who AI-optimizes their comments.
- maratc 4mo agoBoth my computer and my phone replace two dash symbols with an em dash, and have been doing so since well before the invention of AI. The GP’s post history suggests they have some touch with typography.
- DonHopkins 4mo agoYou didn't spell any words wrong!!! That's so obviously AI slop you're posting. What a hypocrite! At least activate a skill that randmly misspells words to mask that you're using AI to complain about other people using AI.
- chrismorgan 4mo agoThis is HN. We’re not typical people. Quite a few of us have been consistently and deliberately using em dashes for a long, long time. Please face it: especially on a site like HN, you will encounter em dashes from real humans, whether converted by some system software or typed deliberately. Em dashes are a weak signal at best. On HN, they’re a very weak signal.
- chrismorgan 4mo ago> Must be followers of Chicago Manual of Style (and not AP Stylebook.) You know, there are more than two possible choices. I scorn to subject myself to any style guide for my personal writing… let alone an American one. People used em-dash-sans-space long before CMOS was dreamed up. I sha’n’t follow all the older traditions I find, but I do frequently favour them.
- maratc 4mo agohttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiret https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiret has a lot of options for you :)