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shoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I use the em dash constantly, and have done for years, so finding out it’s a big “this was written by AI” indicator makes me sad — I’m not an AI user, I just like the way it looks!

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Wiz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You can do the things all GenX people learned on typing class, the double hyphen.

Also, we double space after periods. That’s a hard but of muscle memory to get out of my head.

Source: Me. A in typing. 1984.

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- aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The double space automatically ages you. Ageism….
  
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L7HM77@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If it’s any consolation, it’s heavily biased in the training data for a reason, you’re not alone

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vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

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