alt Hacker NewsIt's a terrible side effect of AI that regular people using em dashes in honest writing are labelled as AI.
I have a deep love for em and en dashes--you can see heavy usage in my writing that's 10 years older than chatgpt.
My love for the dashes hasn't gone, but now I use a double dash instead so I am not immediately labelled as an AI.
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Agreed. I've used the em dash for well over a decade and love it, but am having to train myself to not use it simply to not appear as though my text is written by AI.
At least avoiding the "it's not just that X, it's Y" style that AI loves is easy enough!
Yeah, just writing in Word (and few other) will get your - turned into em dashes. Personally I hate them. Mostly coz of random editors making GNU cmdline options into emdash and so breaking copying but I also think they are ugly, way too long in most fonts
Ha ha, now labeled as old — when on a typewriter it was common to use two dashes as a fake em dash.
When you feel the need to dive in with a dash (m, n or otherwise), why not stop ... think for a while: consider going in with a colon instead?
It’s just less literate people feeling the need to out themselves.
It's not that hard.
Period (.) ends the sentence, comma (,) breaks up the sentence. If the next sentence is closely related, end the sentence with a semi-colon (;). For every other type of break--especially those that resemble the natural and chaotic shifts of thought we all have--use an em-dash. (Oh, and put text you want to be optionally skipped in parenthesis.)
Em-dash is probably the most natural punctuation; it best matches the kinds of shifts our brain does when thinking.