MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by jacobolus on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:04PM (#49467052)

Spaced en dashes – like this – are a correct and accepted typographical choice. Whether to use spaced en dashes or (spaced or unspaced) em dashes is a matter of taste or local convention, and varies from one publication to another. Other than a typo or two where the space was left out on one side of a dash, the dashes in this linked document are just fine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by phasefactor on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:46PM (#49470214)

I was not claiming they are not correct punctuation/syntax. My claim is just no one uses them that frequently... When you see dozens of them in the first few pages of a document it raises suspicion.

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by jacobolus on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:22PM (#49472067)

Some authors use a ton of dashes, while others never use dashes.

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by jaggederest on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:20PM (#49473287)

This is likely an artifact of writing standards - not especially suspicious, it's like MIT Tech Review or the New Yorker using diaresis when they need to say reëducate.

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by FabHK on Saturday August 29, 2026 @12:12AM (#49486808)

Sad that people now consider basic knowledge of typography, punctuation, and orthography a sign of AI.

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