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card_zerotoday at 4:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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tptacektoday at 4:11 PM

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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cindyllmtoday at 4:10 PM

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