[p410n3]

I always thought the whole argument was about explicitly using em dash and / or en dash. Aka — and –.

Because while people OBVIOUSLY use dashes in writing, humans usually fell back on using the (technically incorrect) hyphen aka the "minus symbol" - because thats whats available on the keyboards and basically no one will care.

Seems like, in the biggest game of telephone called the internet, this has devolved into "using any form of dash = AI".

Great.

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The funniest thing I see are people who are harking "Eww, you used AI for this and it's bad because of that, I can tell because I used this other AI service who said what you wrote was 90% of AI", completely failing to grasp the irony.

[vsl]

Yeah, the joys of mass ignorance.

- Barely literate native English speakers not comprehending even minimally sophisticated grammatical constructs.

- Windows-centric people not understanding that you can trivially type em-dash (well, en-dash, but people don’t understand the difference either) on Mac by typing - twice.

[foundddit]

Recently, many people do use the em dash. One big reason is that iOS and I think macOS auto converts a double - into an em dash.

[oneeyedpigeon]

> and basically no one will care

Wow, you really do under/over estimate some of us :)

[p410n3]

Fair. I was probably just projecting. I cant even figure out when to use a comma in my native language. So caring about which type of hyphen was used feels like overly sophisticated to me - because I dont care myself.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Ah, no, I was only joking. I may be a grammar pedant, but I can also do self-deprecation.