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[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 82 points 4 days ago (47 children)

You people think em dashes are proof of AI?

Jesus Christ that’s so fucking sad.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 78 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Most normal people, at least from my understanding, don't use em dashes in text messages, let alone even use punctuation half the time. So if I see em dashes, yeah, my first thought is going straight to AI.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Annoyingly I've used them for a number of years as a good way to make internet comments flow a bit more. However I find myself doing it less and less now because I'm worried people are just going to think I'm using an AI if they see an em dash.

(You just long press dash on android to get to it, opt+shift+dash on Mac, and the admittedly Byzantine alt+0151 on windows. Can't remember iOS off the top of my head, but I think it's similar to android)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Super simple on iOS—double hyphen!

(On the second press of the dash button, the dashes automatically joined 👆)

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