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Em dashes and emojis

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Is this a thing? Shit, I’m now going to be self conscious about using the em.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

If you're already breaking up over text, you probably aren't in a position to worry much about how they interpret your typography. And if they haven't noticed how you normally write there's even less reason to worry about it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

using the em

That's how you can know that you're just a simulation.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Love that you picked up on this from my comment and not the meme.

We’re all in a simulation

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Being in the simulation is very different than being the simulation

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've seen this video that talks about some signs of AI text and em dash is one of them

https://youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The em dash is just something you can use to diagnose the "AI-ness" of some text, the same way a cough could mean a cold or it could mean something else. You don't need to be self-conscious about it.

Somebody else replied with the video that popularized this bit of insight.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

No, it’s not a thing. There’s a new batch of even stupider than normal language prescriptivists that think they’re the first to come up with the concept, though.

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