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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I believe an em dash is a legitimate, albeit not common outside of written works, grammatical thingamadoo.

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

Too bad we only accept grammatical thingamajigs and thingamabobs as non-AI

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

I think thingamawhosits are allowed also?

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

They’re quite common if you use iOS. The autocorrect changes 2 regular -‘s into one — em dash.

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago

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.

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