Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it.
mereo@piefed.ca 2 weeks agoIn this day and age, we need to appear drummer than AI.
Hey! He used a semicolon! AI generated!
Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it.
mereo@piefed.ca 2 weeks agoIn this day and age, we need to appear drummer than AI.
Hey! He used a semicolon! AI generated!
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Unironically em dashes are pretty useful—now that I know how to use them.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Right? I configured my mobile keyboard to access them AFTER all the LLM stuff — prior to that I had never really paid attention to the fact it was different from hyphens.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
What makes them useful compared to other punctuation like hyphens?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hyphens are for, you know hyphenating.
Such as in well-known.
Emdashes add emphasis and provide visual breaks.
Its weird that AI glommed onto then so much though.
Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s a little hard to explain without coming across as pedantic. The Wikipedia article on the “Dash” does a pretty good job of it. Compare en dash to em dash. Or just read the “Usage” sub-section under “Em dash”. I used to use the em dash (occasionally) in my writing but now I try to avoid it, thanks to AI over-using it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash