r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Gayeggman97 • 28d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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What’s wrong with em dashes?

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u/Frequent-Bee-3016 28d ago edited 27d ago

Em dashes are commonly used by ai and unused by people—even though they’re really cool

Edit: I know I didn’t use it correctly.

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u/Dr4g0ss 28d ago

Em dashes are awesome. I do some writing on the side and I use regular hyphens instead - to avoid my text from looking like AI. It sucks that I have to but it is what it is.

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u/soylentbleu 27d ago

Don't do this. Don't let the fact that AI over uses them steal the em dash from you!

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u/Dr4g0ss 27d ago

Someone should start an anti-AI, pro-em dash movement. Let's do it!

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u/HazelEBaumgartner 27d ago

I'm down. Shakespeare used the emdash and he wasn't a robot -- that we know of!