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Comment by dasyatidprime

3 hours ago

I was able to infer the invisible quotation marks after a double take, but they probably ought to have been visible ones…

The quotation marks are embedded in the emdashes

  • the notion that "contains —" ~= "AI generated" is a really dumb popular misconception: dashes have existed for hundreds of years. just because many people use them incorrectly or treat the hyphen as if it's some universal dash doesn't change that.

    strunk & white taught me to use em dashes in something like elementary or middle school [1] — it's not hard to understand how to use them or type them... i'm baffled as to why people act like this is the case.

    [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style