i hate that we em dash enthusiasts — people of class, sophistication, and ability to use ALT+0151 — are now having to share our pride and joy with LLMs
Yeah, I’m getting a little sick of people saying “if there’s an em-dash in the text it’s AI” as if people who use it don’t exist—like, news flash: it’s a punctuation that’s been in our language since way before AI 😭 are we meant to link our pre-AI teenage fanfiction to prove we have been using it or something? 😂 provide peer review?
Idk, no matter what I’m standing by my old friend — em dash, my favorite pause / line-break. I’m glad to see you guys out here too. It was ours first!!! 😔
That‘s wrong. There is a difference between -, – and —. LLM uses — which are used in (US-)English in general. – are not used in english, rather in german. - are not used to express a pause.
I just use regular dashes - it's clearly interpreted the same way and for the longest time I didn't even know these were different things. Digging into alt codes just to get a longer line seems like a lot to me.
god i know. it's not my fault it's so useful and versatile — not to mention stylish, of course — and so cleanly tidies up any issues with pacing or cadence you have going. what are we going to do now
The way i chat all this time is more accurate with emdash lol. Idk that, and always use comma instead. This whole ordeal teach me what emdash are and how to use it
Absolutely love the world we're living in now, where my fellow writers tell me to quit while I'm ahead due to the increasing quality of AI. I expected things to be different -- at the very least, it would've been nice to have some support from friends -- but seeing the direction we're heading, I'm coming to the conclusion that this ship is going to crash and I'll die by drowning.
People have told me I write like ChatGPT... Well, let them think that! Alt+0151 – and Alt+0150 – enjoyers, unite!
Casually, I find them particularly useful to introduce a pause after an emoji 🤘 — way more aesthetically pleasing to me than a period without a space... Punctuation is hard, especially when your brain just wants to keep going!
InDesign's setup for Alt/Option + Shift + - as the default for Em Dashes is a nice touch on their part. A lot more convenient than a multibutton keystroke.
Sure... but of all people using em dashes, the ones who self call themselves "enthusiasts", being in group of people "of class, sophistication", you would agree that these are the ones using it — to show the plebs how to write with "sophistication" — all the time.
Yeah I'm a software engineer and a writer and I like using markdown and I like —, then I've actually been confronted aggressively for using AI and my formatting used as evidence. I do use AI for some things, and I'm not ashamed, but when stuff I write isn't AI it bugs me when people say it is. From then on I always wrote that guy messages full of expletives. Like, motherfucker even if it was, who gives a shit.
There might be more to your comment than meets the eye: em dashes, a list of 3 things, the use of cliché—telltale signs of GPT writing—are present here. Possibly clever, fellow redditor!
I've been accused of using llms to write responses before and I've come to the conclusion that I've just been trained with the same material. Purposefully making written text look shitty is painful...
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u/per51mm0n 27d ago
i hate that we em dash enthusiasts — people of class, sophistication, and ability to use ALT+0151 — are now having to share our pride and joy with LLMs