#Microsoft Finally Added an #EmDash #Shortcut

https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-added-shortcut-for-em-dashes

AI가 긴 대시(—)를 남발하는 진짜 이유

https://aisparkup.com/posts/6195

🚀 AI's #love affair with the #emdash is so intense even #Emily #Dickinson is blushing. 🤦‍♂️ Apparently, these models can't resist the urge to dash through text with such flair that mere mortals are abandoning it out of sheer embarrassment. 🤷‍♀️ Meanwhile, #OpenAI users are left scratching their heads in #forums, trying to teach their bots to lay off the #drama. 🤔
https://www.seangoedecke.com/em-dashes/ #AI #HackerNews #ngated

Kind of sad about reviewing my book on writing style of 10 years ago and finding out all I learned from it (yes, including the em-dash and antithesis) is all that AI has hijacked. I'm trying hard to ignore it, but I keep wondering what's worth adapting and what's worth rebelling for.

#AI #writing #writingstyle #emdash

Punctuation — Interrupted

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https://writingcooperative.com/punctuation-interrupted-3b7337e864d

#wordnerd #personalessay #emdash #writing #punctuation

If the text you're reading has em dashes without spaces, you may be reading ChatGPT slop.

#ChatGPT #AI #LLMs #EmDash #slop

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/chatgpt-dash-hyphen-writing-communication.html

Human writers have always used the em dash

https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini

#HackerNews #HumanWriters #EmDash #WritingStyle #AIChatGPT #LanguageEvolution

This week in #powRSS there have been several blog posts about the use of em dashes. Is it a clear sign of AI writing? Do we let LLMs keep it? Or do we use it more and more?

A thread 🧵

#blogs #writing #ai #emdash

@immarisabel As a fellow em-dasher—you betcha I em—seeing your blog delighted me, having been told mere weeks ago by a fellow author that it was a hallmark of AI writing and it is being used less, which left me sad. I use it extensively in my fiction as I never shy away from a long continuing thought sentence when it's the write way to say what I mean. The author said they were soldiering on, and well they should; so should we. Good writing—even with em-dashes—differentiates itself from mediocre averaging-the-mean AI drivel. The thing about AI is that it pattern matches—it discovers trends because it is incapable of reasoning, meaning its use of the em is because people commonly write using it! Maybe what's popular are em parentheticals, or the em abrupt end—? Of course AI uses the word Is a lot. Maybe we should stop using that?

I even use the em-dash for signature lines.

—R.S.

Again, thanks. I boosted your post to my followers.

#BoostingIsSharing

#emdashes #emdash #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writer #author

I added #keyboard #shortcuts for #endash #emdash and the bullet characters.
#LinuxMint #xfce

#keyboardshortcuts #Linux

https://youtube.com/shorts/XKsPaX2NVOs?si=Wj2-Fthem4Kyz3ij

beautiful little video #emdash #AiSlop

It's true — my bad.

For decades — it's an obsession — I have used the parenthetical #EmDash to punctuate my writing. They are so much more elegant than littering my posts with (obnoxious) parentheses.

#TechBros hoovered up the Internet — including all my posts — to train their #GenAI to produce slop, and that's why #ChatGPT dumps em dashes all over the place.

Remember, seeing an em dash doesn't automatically mean #AI wrote it — could be a #GrammarNerd like me.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/06/26/em-dashes-hyphens-and-spotting-ai-writing/

Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderboard.html

#HackerNews #HackerNews #emDash #Leaderboard #ChatGPT #PreChatGPT #TechCommunity

The last barrier has fallen! It will be impossible to tell humans apart from AI!

https://www.theverge.com/news/767551/windows-is-getting-a-better-em-dash-keyboard-shortcut

#AI #windows #EmDash #typography

"Its absence in education is likely due, in part, to its rocky past, as well as to the unflattering whims of public opinion, which now seem to be shifting. As the em dash returns to favor, it is worth exploring the history and merits of this valuable punctuation mark."

#Punctuation #emDash

https://literaryashland.org/?p=11371

I *love* em dashes. In fact, I sometimes wonder if I over use them in my writing. Can you over use em dashes?!

All hail the em dash!

https://bsky.app/profile/merrileeiam.bsky.social/post/3lu4ct46nbs2g #EmDash #writing #grammar #punctuation

Are you a JavaScript / Chrome extension person who also loves an emdash as only a typography dork (or, apparently, an AI) could love it?

@dotcolm could use your help portion the ChromeOS ComposeKey extension to Manifest v3 so we can — and ã and ‘

Attempts to date are at https://github.com/google/extra-keyboards-for-chrome-os/pull/152

#chrome #javascript #emdash

#GPT5 is a lot colder, emotionless, and generally less “intelligent” than GPT-4o was. That’s gonna take a lot of the fun out of the one consistent purpose I use ChatGPT for: analysing all my #chess games.

Also, I use the #EmDash both correctly and a lot. The presence of correctly-used em-dashes is not a reliable indicator of AI-generated text.

Ik las een van Wallace’ vroegste verhalen — en herkende hem meteen aan zijn stijl, toon, thematiek én leestekens. In het bijzonder de em-dash (—), dat hij inzet als literaire aarzeling en ritmebepaler. In deze blog leg ik het verschil uit tussen koppelteken, minteken, en de twee soorten gedachtestreepjes.

https://janvandenberg.blog/over-david-foster-wallace-de-em-dash-en-andere-streepjes/

#DavidFosterWallace #EmDash #EmilyDickinson #EnDash #JohnGreen #Leestekens