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Fuck off with the "em dash" shit. Some of us were actually taught to write.
Use of em dashes is not an "AI tell". It's the contents surrounding the em dashes that are the tell.
No one on the internet is writing - we're typing. There's certainly no em dash on my keyboard. Is there one on yours?
Who tf is going to do that? Normal people just use a hyphen - same effect, less work. All "dashes" are the same for 99% of readers.
I might excuse this in a book, where editors can be snobs about that sort of thing. In an email or internet comment? It's AI.
I'm not sure modern typography needs separate glyphs for vertically centered horizontal lines.
-is sufficient.That said, the average idiot isn't going to know how to type one. If someone who's otherwise a dullard pops it out, it's a sign they didn't produce the content themselves.
There’s a certain anachronistic elegance to using the same characters people who had to physically lay out their printed books on presses had to use.
I like adding en and em dashes to my writing, and I don’t think somebody experienced in AI writing would mistake my content for slop based on their presence alone.
We don’t “need” capital and lower case letters either technically but we agree to use them because it makes for a nicer reading experience.
This argument seems technically true (the best kind of true, maybe!) but I'd say the readability gains from capitalization are much higher than having multiple horizontal line glyphs.
"Capitalization is the difference between 'I helped my uncle Jack off the horse' and 'I helped my uncle jack off the horse' "
Tell me you don't know what the difference between a hyphen, an en dash, and an em dash is.
Well done!
You didn't make an argument for why the separate glyphs are needed. You didn't refute what I said. You just self-pleasured yourself here for everyone to see. What a disappointment you are.
I'm not your English teacher.
Read a book. See what the use cases are on your own time.
Why would you even bother posting on a community if you're not going to communicate? You're insufferable.
Same reason why some people masturbate in public, I guess: it enhances their personal enjoyment.