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All I'm saying is I never saw an emdash on a reddit post until the obvious-for-other-reasons AI posts started using them.
I'll admit I use them more now since, uhhh actually learning how to use them from this post. Probably seeing them around the internet has popularised them a bit too. Plus on my mobile, it's just as easy to use a hyphen as an em-dash.
bakery’s offerings—all 62 items—and had
With no spacing around? What the heck. Wikipedia confirms it.
In German, we do spacing around the Gedankenstrich. I find that much more readable. It is also only half an em.
Du magst ja recht haben – aber ich sehe das ganz anders.
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Em dashes are hyped up, but most people aren't writing up bulleted lists themselves for a random email.
I do bulleted lists in emails if it's called for...
Y'all motherfuckers need to read more. Why is proper grammar suddenly a bad thing?
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TIL I'm ChatGPT
I'm learning a lot about myself today!
It's an identifier in social media, not in mainstream news.
there's a use for the em dash. it is mainly on reports and literature. i just don't see it on the casual internet much.
from what i read, it is the use of realm and delve that have strong leanings of ai bias.
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