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Damn she had AI write it (discuss.online)
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Em dashes and emojis

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (13 children)

How the hell do you even type an em dash?

I'm sure it's possible (I know it's easy on a touch keyboard), but if the person who sent it has never used em dashes in their life, then it's pretty definitive proof. Otherwise, it's just a big clue that you might combine with other factors.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    On a mobile phone it's super easy. Long press the hyphen button and swipe over to the dash.

    On Mac it's pretty easy still, but requires a little more knowledge. Option-shift-dash. (Without the shift gives you an en dash.)

    On Windows it's the completely arcane alt-0151, and only possible if you have a numpad. I memorised it like 15 years ago and have regularly used it since, but it's hard to blame people for not doing so.

    No idea about Linux.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Word and Google docs will translate them from --

    They'll also give you the stupid smart quotes.

    I've never break up with anybody over text but if for some reason I had to I would certainly write it on a computer first.

    edit: LOL apparently lemmy markdown also translates them from --

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You use use the compose key with a sequence of characters. Mine is right alt, so it's gonna be:

    right alt, then -, then -, then -

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

    If I had a nickel for each time this week, I needed to link to this, I'd have two nickels; which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Okay, I must confess, I knew about that, as well as the other options in the replies. I never used any of them but I knew they exist. When I asked it was sort of as a rhetorical question. People generally wouldn't know about these obscure typing options, so I was playing the everyman.

    Even if you do know it, if you don't use it often enough you forget and have to look it up again next time.

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