[sroussey]

Some of us are older—and use en dash all the time.

[Spivak]

I actually associate it with a younger writer, perhaps it skipped a generation. I can imagine that someone who grew up in a world where typing an em dash meant looking up an alt code would develop a style that avoids them—but it's only a long press of the - away on the device where I do most of my writing by volume so of course I'm going to use them.

[throwanem]

Back when the English Internet was Latin-1, one

    would often see expedients like
    this -- or this--or even, most
    minimally, just this-

which held over well enough that I believe Word by default probably still replaces one of them if you use it.

[sroussey]

My iPhone changes -- to —

[trollbridge]

I’ve stopped using em and en dashes for this specific reason.

[throwanem]

To hell with that. It will be a bad day when someone accuses me of using AI to forge original work—a bad day for them, not for me.

[Veen]

I just use commas or semi-colons where I would have previously used em dashes. It's annoying to have to adapt to avoid triggering people's faulty AI slop pattern matching, but the alternatives are perfectly fine.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

And some of us are the sort of nerds¹ who use Unicode numeric superscript characters for footnotes.

¹ An unstylish or socially awkward person generally devoted to intellectual, academic, or technical pursuits or interests.

[throwanem]

Some of us even know where to find them on the iOS—and the Android—keyboard.

[ezekiel68]

I fell in love with them a long time ago when reading Nietzsche aphorisms.