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Added 2025-08-15 18:31:02 +0000 UTCThe biggest loss for me personally with the advent of ChatGPT is that it’s forced me to strip em-dashes out of my writing style. Ya know, that dash that’s a little longer than a regular dash — like that!
It used to be a fun, infrequently used, but easily understood form of punctuation to throw in place of a semicolon, or just to use for a pause. And while it’s still infrequently used by humans, robots are apparently obsessed with them. And as much as I respect our AI overlords, I wouldn’t want anyone thinking I’m one of them! Basically, the sort of feeling all heterosexual, cis boys in the '90s had about gay people.
So, now I just gotta use semicolons instead I guess; not that I’m ever particularly confident that I’m using it right. Like there! Was that right? I have no idea.
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I think it was used correctly. Though I'd say stick to your em-dashes! Let people think what they may.
Drakloryn (Andricus)
2025-08-23 22:34:32 +0000 UTC
