Em dashes and emojis
You can pry my em dashes — which I use regularly in writing because I love them— from my cold dead hands (To be fair, I really like parenthetical statements too, could be an ADHD thing).
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Yesss em dashes are my babies! They're have more versatility in breaking up sentences than commas IMO, and they don't have as many annoying rules as semi-colons.
But I also write stories as a hobby so thats the reason its something I care about
I'm with you. I used to use a lot more parentheses, but the break is cleaner. I opt for en dashes, though, because I find too em dashes to be too long. That could just be a MSWord preference because I don't distinguish on other platforms.
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Many input mechanisms automatically substitute two hyphens with "–".
Including this very platform.
Lemmy will automatically render a double dash -- as an en dash, and a triple dash
as an em dash.
I usually just type alt + 0151, though, because I'm a nerd.
I just got a line across the page: ---
You only get a horizontal line when you have the three dashes sit alone on a line
But when you use it inline---then it should render as an emdash or--an endash
Why am I bold? why does markdown do my head in. Its really not that hard.
I'm not seeing it in Voyager, but I'm guessing you made a header:
Main header
===========
Level 2 header
--------------
The number of dashes or equality signs doesn't have to match, so I think that's what you did.
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My keyboard has them - – — git gud
git push origin main --force
No no no, git gud, not git push.
I once wasted an hour trying to figure out why a CLI command straight from a project's README wouldn't work, only to figure out that they had em dashes instead of regular dashes in their example. Ended up opening a PR to hopefully save someone the same pain in the future.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some just open PRs. Thank you for your service. 🫡
I'm so sorry your chat bot broke up with you :(
Is this a thing? Shit, I’m now going to be self conscious about using the em.
The em dash is just something you can use to diagnose the "AI-ness" of some text, the same way a cough could mean a cold or it could mean something else. You don't need to be self-conscious about it.
Somebody else replied with the video that popularized this bit of insight.
No, it’s not a thing. There’s a new batch of even stupider than normal language prescriptivists that think they’re the first to come up with the concept, though.
If you're already breaking up over text, you probably aren't in a position to worry much about how they interpret your typography. And if they haven't noticed how you normally write there's even less reason to worry about it.
using the em
That's how you can know that you're just a simulation.
Love that you picked up on this from my comment and not the meme.
We’re all in a simulation
I've seen this video that talks about some signs of AI text and em dash is one of them