• Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
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      There are two types of dashes. One is the “n-dash” (or “en-dash”), which takes up one space, and is most often used to hyphenate words; and the other is the “m-dash” (or "em-dash) which takes up two spaces, and is most often used to bracket off parenthetical information within a sentence, like kind of a lighter weight parentheses. Em-dashes get used a lot in novels and other published writing that is subject to correction from a professional copy editor, but very rarely in the daily typing of regular people. So now when people see it getting used they just assume it must be a clanker.

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        A slight correction, en-dashes are used mostly to indicate ranges like Mon–Fri. Hyphens are a separate third thing, smaller than an en-dash.

        - hyphen
        – en-dash
        — em-dash

        They get their names originally from having the same width as the letter n or m respectively in typesetting (though not all fonts follow that necessarily).

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      You should be able to figure it out—even if you don’t know what you’re looking for—if you’re sent the proper response ;)

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          Plenty = dozen.

          Most just use n-dashes. M-dash doesn’t even exist on most virtual keyboards.

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              This is how I’ve used them. Or I’ll just put – as a place holder and use the replace all function to change them when I finish. Luckily I’ve never had anyone accuse me of AI writing but it’s probably a matter of time. I think the use of em-dash as the “telltale sign” of AI is silly. They’re just more often used in research, documentation, and academics which the AI is heavily trained on. Obviously when average reddit Joe uses them frequently it’s a bit of a red flag, so the context of the writing is key here. The AI uses it because it is widely and commonly used by humans.

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    I’m just mad I can’t use dashes as punctuation anymore 🫩

    *Without it looking like I’m using chatgpt

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    Fuck that stupid AI/AGI narrative, even if this is meant as a joke. They’re LLMs. Some of them not even so large. A bunch of if statements with access to all the data advertising companies like Google have harvested for decades.

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    Wonder if you specify to use en dashes instead if it just collapses and the simulation resets