Em dashes and emojis

    • @[email protected]
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      85 days ago

      If you’re already breaking up over text, you probably aren’t in a position to worry much about how they interpret your typography. And if they haven’t noticed how you normally write there’s even less reason to worry about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 days ago

      No, it’s not a thing. There’s a new batch of even stupider than normal language prescriptivists that think they’re the first to come up with the concept, though.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 days ago

      The em dash is just something you can use to diagnose the “AI-ness” of some text, the same way a cough could mean a cold or it could mean something else. You don’t need to be self-conscious about it.

      Somebody else replied with the video that popularized this bit of insight.