I was using em dashes before AI made them uncool, no fuckass thieving robot is gonna make me change my typing.
Why should I change—he's the one who sucks!
The AI uses em dashes because people used em dashes.
I was providing advice to one of my bosses on how to scan cover letters for AI, and I outed em dashes. It pained me because I love them, but enough ppl don't know how to use them properly thats it's actually a reasonable flag 🙃
COLD.
DEAD.
HANDS.
Em dash is good punctuation and I won’t let you philistines take it away from me.
Right. It is used in books often. Maybe people don't read?
I will use them and not feel bad about it. I will not let AI take them from me
If you can't read a fucking em dash —already a commonly-used punctuation mark— without thinking the author must be AI, then you are both insufficiently trained —either in grammar or in how to use your own keyboard— and bad at identifying AI responses.
Hey now—some of us are totally human!
and then there's me who uses em dashes just because I know it bothers a rather vocal group of people
I liked using em dashes, but now I've stopped. I'm ecen less likely to fix minor spelling and grammatical errors that I otherwise would've, because at least it will be easier to recognize a human behind the comment or post.
Also, signing my name like this helps too: ,,,.),,,.)==============D~~~~~~~
You can still have the same function using a hyphen. How do you even type an em dash on a standard keyboard?
Compose - -
I assume compose is meant to be a key? What key is compose?
The Compose key.
If you don't have a compose key, well, you should have one. You can define it easily in the Kde control center. I suppose there's the equivalent in Gnome.
It was introduced by Sun. It's very convenient.
Well em dashes existed long before AI or computers. Many humans use them in writing, so it doesn't necessarily indicate AI was used.
This comment would have been great — had it not been for the lack of an em dash to create irony.
99 Pi did a decent podcast on it recently, pretty interesting how far back it's usage goes, and how prevalent it was at different times in history.
I wonder how many times I've been given away then.
I don't care, I'm not giving up the em-dash in my own writing. Good luck reading half of my run-on sentences without it~~~
What's this?
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: "—" 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 — is a single dash, the width of an m. An en-dash – is a single dash the width of an n
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