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And option-hyphen has typed one directly for even longer… wait, is AI coming for my option-semicolon too?
Option-hyphen usually produces an en dash—the em dash is on option-shift-hyphen. The Unicode horizontal ellipsis is an abomination that doesn't belong in English prose, though.
Ok... that title should have a comma, not an em dash. If you're going to complain about having them being removed, you have to use them properly at least. And then " It seems I have two choices now—keep using em dashes with a sort of stubborn, curmudgeonly pride until all my clients stop exchanging money for words, or start writing incredibly long run-on sentences, like this, with commas all over the place … and mayb…
There is, of course, quite a bit of tongue-in-cheekiness in that article.
Yeah, lately I've found myself editing out my em-dashes , because otherwise people may think it's an LLM writing, not me. Sigh.
Some subreddits now force you to do this. I've been typing three hyphens as a petulant show of passive aggression.
I don't get the "em dash = AI" thing. MS Word and iOS have been autocorrecting em dashes for years now. Right? Am I the crazy one?
Just blatant aicism at this point. How else are AI supposed to speak? In blocky digital fonts only?
I don't get the "em dash = AI" thing. MS Word and iOS have been autocorrecting em dashes for years now. Right? Am I the crazy one?
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Even using "big words" gets you mistaken for AI these days, which is especially frustrating when you have a richer vocabulary than average due to growing up reading a lot of books.
In general forums it's quite often like you've been stuck in an episode of Idiocracy. If we extrapolate the current trajectory it feels like we'll be communicating online with grunts and emojis in a couple of years.
that's why my username means "idiot"