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Em dashes and emojis

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[-] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago

Or she actually cares about ponctuation. And that's a lost for you.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I long for the day when we stop giving a fuck about how many pixels a dash has.

Jesus fucking christ it is so insufferable how long this goes on for.

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[-] [email protected] 145 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You can pry my em dashes — which I use regularly in writing because I love them — from my cold dead hands (To be fair, I really like parenthetical statements too, could be an ADHD thing).

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago

You're providing a thought (and a bonus thought)

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Humans just use dashes - they get the point across and don't require esoteric button presses.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

But it just doesn't look right. I use a double dash, but most places now convert that automatically to em dash.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

On the iPhone I just long-press the dash and get alternates like en and em dash, as well as middot. Otherwise, no esoteric button presses. Works on macOS and iPad too.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Some phones turn hyphens into an em dash.

Fuck using an alt code though, I'm just gonna use a comma even when I shouldn't

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Many input mechanisms automatically substitute two hyphens with "–".

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

Including this very platform.

Lemmy will automatically render a double dash -- as an en dash, and a triple dash


as an em dash.

I usually just type alt + 0151, though, because I'm a nerd.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

I'm a markdown nerd who likes to use headers to break up longer post and sometimes properly buletpoint or put ASCII art in preformatted boxes. People who thinks they have the magic sauce on LLM generation detection because a post goes out of their way to do more than the bre minimum with punctuation or formatting is an asshole.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

My keyboard has them - – — git gud

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

git push origin main --force

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I once wasted an hour trying to figure out why a CLI command straight from a project's README wouldn't work, only to figure out that they had em dashes instead of regular dashes in their example. Ended up opening a PR to hopefully save someone the same pain in the future.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Not all heroes wear capes. Some just open PRs. Thank you for your service. 🫡

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I'm so sorry your chat bot broke up with you :(

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

using the em

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

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

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

We’re all in a simulation

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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

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