[AkashKaStudio]

The amount of em—dashes in there exhausted me lol

[plainOldText]

We used to infer one’s mind from their writing. Nowadays?

I’m surprised people are too lazy to even remove them dashes. Well, in fact it might actually be a good thing for one can spot when something was AI generated much easier.

I feel like original writing is pretty much dead these days. We’re all best selling authors now.

[JKCalhoun]

I've been (over) using em-dashes ever since I discovered them. I have no intention of changing.

Curiously, I find in editing my dad's auto-biography that a certain generation went crazy over-inserting commas — wherever they think you might want to pause to take a breath or something. To my eye (ear?) the result is a staccato sentence.

But the truth is I know nothing about grammar rules — I slept through sentence diagramming in elementary school.

[sd9]

This reads like original writing to me. Too creative for LLMs, at least based on my experience.

[PartiallyTyped]

I used em-dashes before ChatGPT became a thing, I will keep using them.

[SethMurphy]

I have started using —ahem— em dashes more regularly so people think I am as smart —well clever at least— as AI.

[robocat]

I'd like to do a study whether there's a correlation between liking emdashes and disliking curly brace languages.

I find emdashes hard to parse and I don't like them without extra spacing.

The punctuation in English feels kinda sucky (and implicit variables suck) compared to some programming languages.

[drooby]

It's not just about using well placed em dashes — it's about creating a sense of awe and enlightenment.

[JKCalhoun]

I agree. I could drop using em-dashes. I feel though like the narrative feels broken up. It stops and starts too frequently.