I like using emdesh and now i have to stop because this became a meme

You’re not alone: https://xkcd.com/3126/

Incidentally, you seem to have been shadowbanned[1]: almost all of your comments appear dead to me.

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

Interesting. They don't appear dead for me (and yes I have showdead set).

Edit: Ah, nevermind I should have looked further back, that's my bad. Apparently the user must ave been un-shadowbanned very recently.

Same. I love my dashes and I’ve been feeling similarly self-conscious.

FWIW I have noticed that they’re often used incorrectly by LLMs, particularly the em-dash.

It seems there’s a tendency to place spaces around the em-dash, i.e. <word><space><em-dash><space><word>, which is an uncommon usage in editor-reviewed texts. En-dashes get surrounding spaces; em-dashes don’t.

Not that it changes things much, since the distinction between the two is rarely taught, so non-writing nerds will still be quick to cry ‘AI-generated!’

Pretty sure, almost every Mac user is using emdash. I know I do when I'm macOS or iOS.