• Skua@kbin.earth
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    17 days ago

    But no irony here—I actually wrote it myself.

    I see that em dash I know what you’re doing

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        17 days ago

        Even saying fair question set off alarms. At this point saying anything good about a response at the start is immediate red flag.

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          17 days ago

          These lists of red flags make me feel like I must be a replicant. I wrote a comment just like that one, em dash and all, on a different site just the other day, with my own organic brain!

          My first instinct was to use an em dash there instead of a comma, but it seemed too on the nose.

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      17 days ago

      I’ve started to drop using emdashes because AI ruined them–bastards.

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        17 days ago

        Honestly I don’t think dropping them is a particular loss. I use them in work writing and then in more casual writing if I happen to be using the keyboard I use for that work since I have a key binding for it, but that’s all. The distinction of dash length (or of dashes from hyphens) doesn’t bring anything useful to our writing in my opinion