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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by jijijijij on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:59PM (#45047865)
Funny enough, I avoided the em dash, because everyone was using hyphens and I didn't want forensic linguistics bored. Now that AI got my FBI agents on welfare and em dashed the internet kaputt, now that I am liberated, I can't tell an em dash and hyphen apart, hand–written in my diary.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by ics on Thursday August 28, 2025 @12:36AM (#45048416)
I have mixed feelings about the liberation but am glad that there are at least two of us.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by whatagreatboy on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:18AM (#45048656)
Em-dashes are very confusing to me, can never figure out if it is a emdash or a hyphen, so I avoid them altogether.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by pwdisswordfishz on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:25AM (#45049055)
A hyphen is shorter.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by whatagreatboy on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:27AM (#45102210)
It's very difficult to determine if the length is due to the font being used or due to actually being hyphen or emdash.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by pwdisswordfishz on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:24AM (#45049047)
En dash either, apparently.
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Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up... by jijijijij on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:13AM (#45053231)
It goes way beyond dashes, too.
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