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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works -4 points 11 hours ago (3 children) What a rude response, there are entire articles about this. https://medium.com/@brentcsutoras/the-em-dash-dilemma-how-a-punctuation-mark-became-ais-stubborn-signature-684fbcc9f559 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Taldan@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago* (1 child) That's about an entirely different symbol, the em dash Em dash: — Dash: ‐ The fact you don't even know the difference is why it was such a hallmark of AI. It was previously used primarily in formal writing like published literature and academia It's actually become more common in layspeak though because of AI, but primarily because it's automatically used when doing 2 dashes on many modern systems permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] korazail@eviltoast.org 1 point 10 hours ago Slightly funny story... I agree with the concept---I was mistaken (and corrected recently); and that many tools like markdown or Word treat TWO hyphens as an EN dash and to get an EM dash you need THREE! I love abusing the semicolon, the ellipsis and the hyphen/dash(es) to indicate a mild pause when transliterating casual speech to text. To my horror, I'd been using the wrong one! permalink fedilink source parent [–] whydotheytortureus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago No, you are rude for spreading wrong information A lot of literate people write with ashes and no, I don't care who wrote what, it's a part of English, there is nothing to be said about it - deal with it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago* (1 child) That's about an entirely different symbol, the em dash Em dash: — Dash: ‐ The fact you don't even know the difference is why it was such a hallmark of AI. It was previously used primarily in formal writing like published literature and academia It's actually become more common in layspeak though because of AI, but primarily because it's automatically used when doing 2 dashes on many modern systems permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] korazail@eviltoast.org 1 point 10 hours ago Slightly funny story... I agree with the concept---I was mistaken (and corrected recently); and that many tools like markdown or Word treat TWO hyphens as an EN dash and to get an EM dash you need THREE! I love abusing the semicolon, the ellipsis and the hyphen/dash(es) to indicate a mild pause when transliterating casual speech to text. To my horror, I'd been using the wrong one! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] korazail@eviltoast.org 1 point 10 hours ago Slightly funny story... I agree with the concept---I was mistaken (and corrected recently); and that many tools like markdown or Word treat TWO hyphens as an EN dash and to get an EM dash you need THREE! I love abusing the semicolon, the ellipsis and the hyphen/dash(es) to indicate a mild pause when transliterating casual speech to text. To my horror, I'd been using the wrong one! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] whydotheytortureus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago No, you are rude for spreading wrong information A lot of literate people write with ashes and no, I don't care who wrote what, it's a part of English, there is nothing to be said about it - deal with it. permalink fedilink source parent