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by daotoad 197 days ago
> whereas all humans typically use the standard hyphen-minus character (U+002D).

I made it a point to learn to type the em dash—only to have it stolen by the bots; it's forced me to become reacquainted with my long lost friend, the semicolon.

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Hah, well, there's that.

But I was referring to the special hyphen that the AIs frequently use today, and which is a hallmark of AI generated text, as it's not on regular keyboards and difficult to access: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-breaking_hyphen

They're also fond of this apostrophe: ’

Whereas almost every human uses: '

Word automatically corrects apostrophes and converts hyphens to em-dashes