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Gives it away every time
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An em dash is
--, two dashes. It's a way to break up a sentence -- sort of like a comma.Apparently AI uses them a lot.
I don't use AI much. Is it actually using two dashes? 'Cause an em dash is its own character: "โ" vs
--I had to put those in manually with the
—html entity in the pre utf-8 web days.You're right. I've always just typed two hyphens and called it good but technically it should be one long dash.
Haha, yeah, I probably wouldn't have learned to care that much if design clients didn't yell at me about it 20 years ago.
Why not just use one dash....?
I believe an em dash is a legitimate, albeit not common outside of written works, grammatical thingamadoo.
Too bad we only accept grammatical thingamajigs and thingamabobs as non-AI
I think thingamawhosits are allowed also?
I'm too pedantic to let this slide. An em-dash โ is a single dash, the width of an m. An en-dash โ is a single dash the width of an n