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My writing used to be littered with them, but I now eschew the em in favour of en, as it has become too strong an anti-shibboleth. I have also taken to being s
by madaxe_again 4mo ago
My writing used to be littered with them, but I now eschew the em in favour of en, as it has become too strong an anti-shibboleth.
I have also taken to being sloppier in my prose, as I’ve had stories rejected for being “written by AI” - when they’re shorts I wrote more than a decade ago. Reworked them to sound like a moron, accepted. Sigh.
- AStrangeMorrow 4mo agoI have a similar issue. I tend to have a very “structured” type of writing. Say on slack or Reddit for example. Using markdown formatting. Lists with bulletpoints etc. And I tend to write long detailed explanations, sometimes too long if I am being honest. But now I find myself adding noise and imperfections to my writing (not that it was perfect) to make it more human, which is kinda silly.
- jimbokun 4mo agoThe LLMs decided to use you as the model for the pinnacle of human communication style.
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- Hendrikto 4mo ago> I now eschew the em in favour of en They have different meaning and are not interchangeable.
- madaxe_again 4mo agoFully aware - although now the broader meaning of the em dash has become “I am an LLM”.
- spider-mario 4mo agoFor the use discussed here, they basically are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash