• vithigar@lemmy.ca
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      1 hour ago

      I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.

      Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I always liked the dramatic…

      …pause.

      I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      People have been speaking with punctuation since language was invented. If you only now realize that pause is an em-dash, that’s on your schooling. :-p