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genuinely why the fuck has my favourite writing tool, the em dash, been forever tainted by ai (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by Lisitsyn@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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literally unusable if you don't want to be seen as an illiterate chatgpt monger. so depressing. I'm tired of using semi colons and commas in their stead, they're just too clunky in certain situations. burn the data centers down. fuck and when all actual writers have switched over, like I have (not calling myself a writer fyi), then the ai will just start using those instead. nothing good comes from generative, recreational ai. opium crisis of our times, no use. genuinely, no use. fuck them all. fuck the child herder elon and his (possibly) bastard son peter thiel. karp fuck you too

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

I generally space my em dashes and sometimes put them immediately after other punctuation marks (old-fashioned compound points), which I know is "wrong" but sometimes I need a little extra space between the period/comma/whatever and the next clause, and sometimes little miss Emma Dash needs some extra space to breathe, don'tcha kno'.