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watermarkhutoday at 7:03 AM6 repliesview on HN

Yeah every same human would use m-dashes in their sentences — it just makes sense


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throw1234567891today at 8:05 AM

I use em-dashes. Just get over the fucking thing. Wow, you're so money supermarket. And if you're going to use one to drive the point—use it correctly because you come across as an ignorant.

joriswtoday at 8:58 AM

Em-dashes predate LLMs and are legitimate punctuation. Are we going to ban/dismiss any pattern now that emerges from these things?

tcballardtoday at 7:08 AM

Regardless - the emdash predated LLMs … but that’s going way off topic!

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slopinthebagtoday at 7:42 AM

It's not the em dashes, it's the sentence flow and the incorrect use of terms like "load-bearing".

Also this user created an even newer account at the same time as posting this to drive engagement. /tinfoil-hat off

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Cthulhu_today at 8:48 AM

Use triple emdashes to look extra sane⸻like this.

LoganDarktoday at 7:09 AM

What? Em-dash is option-shift-hyphen on Mac... it's easy to use them. I used to use them. I even used to grab hair-spaces to place on either side of them, as one should (though that doesn't work on HN).

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