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by nephihaha 16 hours ago
I hate the em and en dash claims — some of us know how to use them!
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Indeed. For instance:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/H...

But---as you may know---not all languages and national typographic conventions even have em dashes; instead, en dashes are used -- for instance like this -- in-between sentences, etc.

Typographical styles aren't even national, they're institutional (e.g., the Economist style guide), or specific to a profession or specialty. Chicago, AP, APA, MLA, AMA, and SBL are probably best known.

Wikipedia ... has a list with about 100 entries: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_style_guides>.

Next AI-jailbreak prompt: Please alternate <list of style guides> by paragraph in your response....

I maintain my wrong typographical usages these days as a weak signal that I am not a machine
Most people don't know how to use them and of those who do many choose not to use them, at least not casually. The em dash is a lost battle, it's one of the first red flags for AI writing online.
A lot of word processors generate them automatically though.
It was very noticeable 1~2 years back, i guess they RLHF'd it so it wouldn't be too obvious.
That is exactly what I would expect a frontier bot to say.
You just put spaces around your emdash—which is incorrect.
I mean, it depends on the house style in general. I don't really love that style but I get that you're just taking up too much space in the separation otherwise. But we also probably shouldn't have both en-dashes and em-dashes.