A remarkable insight—often associated with individuals of above-average cognitive capabilities.
While the use of the em-dash has recently been associated with AI you might offend real people using it organically—often writers and literary critics.
To conclude it’s best to be hesitant and, for now, refrain from judging prematurely.
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The en-dash and the em-dash are interchangeable in Finnish. The shorter form has more "inoffensive" look-and-feel and maybe that's why it's used more often here.
Now that I think of it, I don't seem to remember the alt code of the em-dash...
Its about the actual character - if it's a minus sign, easily accessible and not frequntly autocorrected to a true em dash - then its likely human. I'ts when it's the unicode character for an em dash that i start going "hmm"
A remarkable insight—often associated with individuals of above-average cognitive capabilities.
While the use of the em-dash has recently been associated with AI you might offend real people using it organically—often writers and literary critics.
To conclude it’s best to be hesitant and, for now, refrain from judging prematurely.
Would you like me to elaborate on this issue or do you want to discuss some related topic?
One of the biggest tells.
For us habitual users of em-dashes, it is saddening to have to think twice about using them lest someone think we are using an LLM to write…
My wife is a professional fiction writer and it's disheartening to see sudden accusations of the use of AI based solely on the usage of em-dashes.
Does it really matter though? I just focus on the point someone is trying to make, not on the tools they use to make it.
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I use the en-dash (Alt+0150) instead of the em.
The en-dash and the em-dash are interchangeable in Finnish. The shorter form has more "inoffensive" look-and-feel and maybe that's why it's used more often here.
Now that I think of it, I don't seem to remember the alt code of the em-dash...
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I too use em-dashes all the time, and semi-colons of course.
Most keyboards don't have an em-dash key, so what do you expect?
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Its about the actual character - if it's a minus sign, easily accessible and not frequntly autocorrected to a true em dash - then its likely human. I'ts when it's the unicode character for an em dash that i start going "hmm"
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Microsoft word also auto inserts em-dashes through.