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[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I really hate how em-dashes are now being used as an AI indicator. I'm old—old enough to know how to use them—and have enjoyed the last couple decades of touch keyboards making it easy to type them.

Now i have to stop using them again because some stupid regurgitation machine starts overusing them...

[–] JollyBrancher@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Loved me a good em dash as well. I guess it's back to the underground of semicolons.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

old enough to know how to use them

How old would that be? I'm 38, I just had to look it up on the Internet a couple decades ago to know how to use them, and have used them on occasion since.

Now i have to stop using them

Nah, keep using language correctly. Don't bend to AI. Then it will have won a war it didn't even take part in.

[–] zzx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I USE THEM ALL THE TIME I HATE IT

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why should you stop? I prefer to use em dashes (when I'm on my PC. I used to know the alt code for it). I'm not going to stop using them. By the way, I put spaces around my em dashes, but I notice you (and ChatGPT) don't. Now I have to look up which is correct.