Em dashes and emojis

  • SmokeyDope
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    5 days ago

    — try long pressing your phone keyboards hyphen key.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 days ago

      Ok. You can physically type them I concede, but normal humans don’t use them. Still a sign.

      I would bet that the amount of non proof writers that uses em dashes goes up just because people see that it’s associated with ai and want to be funny.

        • @[email protected]
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          75 days ago

          Yah but your user name is “LanguageIsCool” and you talk about the fun levels of various types of punctuation. You are definitely the outlier here. A cool outlier but an outlier none the less.

          • Nate Cox
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            55 days ago

            I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.