Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by 8bithero on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:52AM
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The only problem with correctly using the Em or En dash is that people will automatically assume the text was written by an LLM -_-
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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by Kiro on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:54AM
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Yeah, I've stopped using them because of this reason.
Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
by lol768 on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:58AM
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The more people proliferate this, the worse it'll be—frankly, we should be embarrassed that societal literacy and writing style knowledge is so poor that we jump to the "must be written by an LLM" conclusion whenever we see any sort of exotic character usage!