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by nerdponx 164 days ago
Em dashes are also historically a useful writing tool in English going back 100+ years, and plenty of real people use them.
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I love em dashes — they're the greatest — it makes me very sad that LLMs have tarnished their reputation.

Back in the days before LLMs, I went out of my way to set up the Compose key on Linux, just so I could do cool things like —, ®, ™, and ¹ quickly!