• Reyali@lemm.ee
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          7 minutes ago

          I used to use em dashes all the time and now I find myself rethinking my writing styles because of people like you and it’s obnoxious.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          31 minutes ago

          I use em dashes all the time, but I don’t put a space on either side—I feel like that’s not the correct way to use one. If it is, I don’t wanna be correct.

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          2 hours ago

          I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they’re used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they’re not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously “LLM” narrative voice and structure (“let’s break it down”, followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can’t type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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            21 minutes ago

            You’re right, en dashes would have been fine there. Em dashes don’t get spaced—and have specific grammatical uses too.

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        4 hours ago

        That’s whatever browser or app you’re using. It rendered as © for me… Bracket, c, bracket

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        Can’t tell if serious because entering ( c ) without the spaces is © in Firefox and other browsers.

        Is it because the other letters don’t have brackets? I don’t use AI to know if that is a thing.