Comment by madaxe_again
3 days ago
My writing used to be littered with them, but I now eschew the em in favour of en, as it has become too strong an anti-shibboleth.
I have also taken to being sloppier in my prose, as I’ve had stories rejected for being “written by AI” - when they’re shorts I wrote more than a decade ago. Reworked them to sound like a moron, accepted. Sigh.
> I now eschew the em in favour of en
They have different meaning and are not interchangeable.
For the use discussed here, they basically are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash
Fully aware - although now the broader meaning of the em dash has become “I am an LLM”.
I have a similar issue. I tend to have a very “structured” type of writing. Say on slack or Reddit for example. Using markdown formatting. Lists with bulletpoints etc. And I tend to write long detailed explanations, sometimes too long if I am being honest.
But now I find myself adding noise and imperfections to my writing (not that it was perfect) to make it more human, which is kinda silly.
The LLMs decided to use you as the model for the pinnacle of human communication style.