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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by viccis on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:49PM (#45047798)
>> whereas humans almost always tend to use a slang version - a single dash with spaces around it.

>That's not an em-dash (blahblahblah...

What, exactly, did you thing "slang" in the phrase "slang version" meant?

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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:57PM (#45048223)
It was an abuse of “slang” to mean “typographic approximation”; now what, exactly, did you think “and its not even an approximation of one, using a hyphen-minus set open—possibly doubled—is an approximation of the typographic convention of using an en-dash set open” meant?
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