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> …if you see an emdash it’s probably AI generated… Or, and—hear me out—the writer typed two successive hyphens on their iDevice.
by nativeit 9d ago
> …if you see an emdash it’s probably AI generated…
Or, and—hear me out—the writer typed two successive hyphens on their iDevice.
- rcarmo 9d agoWhich has been happening for over twenty years on taoofmac.com, for instance. It’s a reflex by now.
- TYPE_FASTER 9d agoMicrosoft Word converts dashes to emdashes if you type "<word> - <word>". Outlook used to do this. I'm using a Mac, and Outlook on the Mac is a different animal, so Outlook on Windows may still do this conversion.
- HelloMcFly 9d agoSmall correction: To get an en dash in Word, type "<word> - <word>" (word space hyphen space word) followed by spacebar. To get an em dash, type "<word>--<word>" (word hyphen hyphen word) followed by spacebar.