Veedem@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 天前Gives it away every timelemmy.worldimagemessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down130
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minus-squareblarghly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 天前Why not just use one dash…?
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 天前I believe an em dash is a legitimate, albeit not common outside of written works, grammatical thingamadoo.
minus-squareExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-210 天前Too bad we only accept grammatical thingamajigs and thingamabobs as non-AI
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 天前I think thingamawhosits are allowed also?
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 天前They’re quite common if you use iOS. The autocorrect changes 2 regular -‘s into one — em dash.
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 天前Well yes, iOS does those grammatical changes. What I mean is the em dash is less common today then in the past, but the wealth of written works including them has “trained” AI that humans use it everywhere.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 天前Different length dashes serve different grammatical purposes, so you can assume they didn’t just use one dash because they intended to use two. Funnily enough, the “dash” people use most often isn’t even technically called a dash, it’s a hyphen.
Why not just use one dash…?
I believe an em dash is a legitimate, albeit not common outside of written works, grammatical thingamadoo.
Too bad we only accept grammatical thingamajigs and thingamabobs as non-AI
I think thingamawhosits are allowed also?
They’re quite common if you use iOS. The autocorrect changes 2 regular -‘s into one — em dash.
Well yes, iOS does those grammatical changes.
What I mean is the em dash is less common today then in the past, but the wealth of written works including them has “trained” AI that humans use it everywhere.
Different length dashes serve different grammatical purposes, so you can assume they didn’t just use one dash because they intended to use two.
Funnily enough, the “dash” people use most often isn’t even technically called a dash, it’s a hyphen.