Comment by afiori
1 month ago
Just saying but LLM-ese as the common dominator of how people wrote, it is likely the writing style of a lot of people
1 month ago
Just saying but LLM-ese as the common dominator of how people wrote, it is likely the writing style of a lot of people
How many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.
Em-dash has a trivial and mnemonic shortcut on Macs (Option-shift-hyphen), so I've been an em-dash user for as long as I've had one.
I committed typing en-dashes and ellipses on Windows to muscle memory. Alt+0150, Alt+0133. Bam!
I'm sure there are easier ways this can be set up. But, as I said, muscle memory.
Although I'll have to admit that wanting to use proper typography in the first place probably started when I was typesetting a print magazine on a Mac, where it's super easy to do it the proper way.
(I'm also never going to let AI slop discourage me from trying to use proper punctuation.)
Do yourself a favour and use typography layout
https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/
English isn't my first language, so I already use an alternate layout.
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