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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by op00to on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:51PM (#43498605)
My LLM prompts all have “don’t use em dashes or semicolons ever” when I send the output to someone else. ;)
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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by lxgr on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:59PM (#43500171)
I get not using em/en dashes, but semicolons don't really have an alternative in many cases (other than rephrasing), do they?
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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by op00to on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:43AM (#43504147)
Usually I split it into two sentences, but yes. I don’t really see semicolons used in most business communications, so I treat them as a tell that the text was generated by LLM. Maybe I’m over reacting and prejudiced against semicolon usage.
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