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Re:Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstr... by Hasnep on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:24PM (#45639174)
If you care about endashes then you'll know that they're not supposed to be used to separate ideas in a sentence, that's what emdashes are for. That makes me think it's not LLM generated because LLMs know how to use emdashes.
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Re:Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstr... by virtualritz on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:10AM (#45641653)
Indeed. In English it is an em-dash. Not brackeded by spaces, although you should bracket by thin spaces to make sure you get some separation, optically. And line breaks in apps that are unaware this is a separator.

In many other languages ideas are separated by en-dashes (surrounded by spaces).

In the case at hand the use of en-dashes in English text instead of the correct em-dashes could also be a sign of a non-native speaker caring about micro-typography and just doing the wrong thing. :)

The LLM conclusion doesn't seem well supported either way.

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