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  • mantrakid5

    im a hardcore user of emdashes in my writing.. i always just like the way it looks and found it effective for communicating a thoughtful pause or contrast. I hate that it is such a AI trope and would hate for someone to think that something that i earnestly wrote was actually written by ai. I went into my keyboard auto-replace settings on macos and set it up so when i type an emdash -- it auto converts it into 2 hyphens. :)

    its the opposite of how it worked already because it was already converting to an emdash when i typed -- but now when i type -- it keeps it as -- and when i type an emdash it converts it to --.

    Now i can keep my writing style and not look like ai... now i just look an idiot who is taking punctuation into his own hands. haha

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    • til Text Replacementi_monk
    • Ha! I’m pissed any time AI uses it — it’s a tell-tale sign_niko
    • When using AI I always prompt to omit any en dashes, em dashes, hyphens, colons or semi colons. Because AI loves using a combo in everything it writes!utopian
    • I'm doing the opposite. I'm starting to use em dashes in my writing. Buckle up, fuckos.palimpsest
    • ^Continuity
    • hahah palimpsestmantrakid
    • same, mantra, emdash is by far my favourite grammatical devicescruffics
    • Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live — at least a while.palimpsest
    • And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance —palimpsest
    • just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!!palimpsest
    • oke — good for youmilfhunter
    • I do believe many prefer to not add spaces either side—myself included.MrT
    • Chicago style.palimpsest
    • I read that in Sean Connery accentMrT
    • It's becoming a problem where I live, where we barely use it in our language. But every text from gpt gives you the americanized version —ArchitectofFate
    • What do you mean by Americanized version?palimpsest
    • I always give GPT a telling off for using em's and ask it to remove all of them as it's def a tell-tale sign.microkorg
    • Em dashes: no spaces
      En dashes: space before and after      i_monk
    • https://oxfordeditin…palimpsest
    • "You should check with your style guide on its rules for using em dashes."palimpsest
    • "Some style guides call for a space on either side of the em dash; others, like Chicago Manual of Style, call for no space."palimpsest
    • Psshhhh, use thin space or hairline spacemonospaced
    • Em dashes ‽ fun as they were ‽ were bound to be supplanted by interrobangs at some point or another.garbage
    • I use the eminem-dash.robthelad
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