Speaking as a fucker, I think the use of em-dashes has been pretentious since the 1890s. The rise of typewriters destroyed em-dashes already. The LLMs subsequently created an accidental parody of sophisticated writing.
What's pretentious about them? They express a distinctive rhythm in written English. What's the the punctuation you would use instead?
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What's pretentious about them? They express a distinctive rhythm in written English. What's the the punctuation you would use instead?