Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent

• bbb@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “…” (Unicode U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis) instead of “…” (three full stops), and using them unnecessarily, is another one I rarely see from humans.

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  • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Am I… AI? I do use ellipses and (what I now see is) en dashes for punctuation. Mainly because they are longer than hyphens and look better in a sentence. Em dash looks too long.

    However, that’s on my phone. On a normal keyboard I use 3 periods and 2 hyphens instead.

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    • Sternhammer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve long been an enthusiast of unpopular punctuation—the ellipsis, the em-dash, the interrobang‽

      The trick to using the em-dash is not to surround it with spaces which tend to break up the text visually. So, this feels good—to me—whereas this — feels unpleasant. I learnt this approach from reading typographer Erik Spiekermann’s book, *Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works.

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      • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My language doesn’t really have hyphenated words or different dashes. It’s mostly punctuation within a sentence. As such there are almost no cases where one encounters a dash without spaces.

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  • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Edit: Huh. Lemmy automatically changed my three fulls stops to the Unicode character.

    Not on my phone it didn’t. It looks as you intended it.

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