Re:Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrec...
by xigoi on Friday March 27, 2026 @02:53PM
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I certainly used em dashes before 2022, and so did anyone who cares about proper typography.
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Re:Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrec...
by lelanthran on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:50PM
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> I certainly used em dashes before 2022, and so did anyone who cares about proper typography.
Who said anything about em-dashes? There's an entire Wikipedia page documenting the tells, and only one of the 15 or so items is "extended usage of em-dashes".
It's not fluff, it's actual tells.
No nonsense, no BS, just tells.
The key insight is...
Re:Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrec...
by xigoi on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:53PM
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I have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes.
Re:Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrec...
by lelanthran on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:16PM
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> I have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes.
Yeah, but you haven't seen me do that :-)
(You also haven't seen anyone on HN recently (since this year) do that either).