• cravl@slrpnk.net
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    20 hours ago

    I’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.

    • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Same. As an extremely verbose and descriptive writer, I take umbrage at the whole em dash debacle. Can’t a man even punctuate anymore!?