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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by losvedir on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:56PM (#45047841)
It's just Option + dash. Using option as a modifier is second nature if you ever write other than English and need, eg, é or ñ or something.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by jandy on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:01PM (#45047880)
Fwiw, that’s actually an En dash not an Em dash. You need a Shift in there to get an Em dash.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by latexr on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:30AM (#45050493)
It depends on the keyboard layout. Some (US) do have it like you described, but others have the dashes reversed.

Both make sense, to a degree. On the one hand you can argue that the em-dash—being longer—should require and extra key, but on the other hand it has more uses so it should not have the extra key to be more accessible.

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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by jandy on Thursday August 28, 2025 @08:40PM (#45058668)
Ah I hadn’t considered keyboard layouts.
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