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  • shoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    19·
    9 hours ago

    I use the em dash constantly, and have done for years, so finding out it’s a big “this was written by AI” indicator makes me sad — I’m not an AI user, I just like the way it looks!

    • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      51 minutes ago

      You can do the things all GenX people learned on typing class, the double hyphen.

      Also, we double space after periods. That’s a hard but of muscle memory to get out of my head.

      Source: Me. A in typing. 1984.

    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.