Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids
by tinier_subsets on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:38PM
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I never fully believed the “em-dashes are an AI giveaway” meme — until I saw that front page.
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Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids
by eszed on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:55PM
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I'm really sad about this, because I'm a word (and punctuation) nerd and use em-dashes in my own writing, because they're correct, dagnabit. Now I'm reconsidering the practice.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids
by nxobject on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:06PM
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This may cause some psychic damage, but I use en dashes instead for this reason... even though yes, it's only conventionally used for numeric ranges.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids
by ziml77 on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:56PM
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Keep using them. Don't let AI steal beautiful em-dashes away from you.