Comment by droidjj
13 hours ago
Em dashes are commonly used to add emphasis, even where you would ordinarily use a comma. Their flexibility is why many people love them! See https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-...
13 hours ago
Em dashes are commonly used to add emphasis, even where you would ordinarily use a comma. Their flexibility is why many people love them! See https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-...
Yes, I know what an emdash is---I've been using them in my writing since long before they came to the fore of the AI writing conversation. Anthropic's use of the emdash in the fragment I quoted is clumsy and reads poorly relative to the obvious alternative, a comma.
I didn’t mean to suggest you don’t know what an em dash is. But you said “this isn’t how you use them.” And my response is: actually, this use of them is totally fine.
Well, I disagree! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527581
It's fine in the sense that when a bad writer writes something I can usually understand what they're trying to say.