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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by throwaway_aiai on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:24PM (#46681762)
Why did you feel the need to use an LLM to compose this comment?
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by lovlar on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:28PM (#46681825)
English is not my native language, and I wanted to clean up the grammar.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by frikk on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:45PM (#46682068)
That's a great reason. I didn't pick up on usage of AI, it reads naturally.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by umanwizard on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:16PM (#46682522)
I disagree completely. It is very obviously LLM-written, and I would much rather read grammatically poor English than LLM-written text, which has a dystopian vibe and just makes me depressed.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by UncleMeat on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:01PM (#46682336)
I would personally vastly rather read your thoughts in less-than-stellar grammar than AI output.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by rootusrootus on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:38PM (#46681969)
We honest users of the emdash are sad at LLMs making it unwelcome.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by wjfuu32984 on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:44PM (#46682041)
Most honest users of the em-dash use it in pairs.

I have never — not once — seen an LLM use it in pairs.

Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by tzot on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:55PM (#46682232)
I always have been using em-dashes with specific spacing:

1. replacing parentheses —given that the em-dash in pairs for me mark more-relevant-to-the-main content than a parenthesized expression would— so I use the same spacing as `()`

2. replacing colon or just finishing the sentence with a subsentence— so the spacing goes like for a colon.

Probably unfounded grammatically and against any style guides, but this spacing makes sense to me.

Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by estebank on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:01PM (#46682337)
I am pretty sure an em-dash in case 2 should not have spaces in either side.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by lostlogin on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:50PM (#46682157)
Isn’t that an endash? - versus —?

Something weird is going on, on iOS I can type either but they look the same in my comment.

Edit: Only before pressing reply. Once posted they look different.

Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by wjfuu32984 on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:52PM (#46682181)
You're right, I had a similar issue with the form.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by majormajor on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:50PM (#46682161)
Yeah, LLMs seem to use it closer to a semicolon than a set of parentheses, which seems a bit more "fancy"/"inauthentic" IMO.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by rootusrootus on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:24PM (#46682622)
That's a good point! I nearly always use it in pairs.
Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by lostlogin on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:48PM (#46682120)
Controversial suggestion - can I propose a move to the visually superior endash?