It’s a great punctuation. You could use commas, but emdash is nice.
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Quexotic@infosec.pub 15 hours ago— consistently—
What kind of person — in academia or otherwise — actually uses em-dashes?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Quexotic@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
It is, isn’t it?
Quexotic@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
I prefer parentheticals, but unless absolutely necessary, I try to write more simply because if I write how I actually think, it starts to get all John Sturat mill run-on sentence-y
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I overuse the fuck out of parentheses. Emdash is helping me get over that, but I can relate.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
AI learned off people’s works. So a lot of people used to use them in writing, it seems.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
Yes, in professional papers and journalism which is prevalant in training datasets.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
I wonder what the venn diagram of “professors” and “people who write papers” is like 🤔
microcapybara@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
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Quexotic@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
I love your username. Capys are so adorable. I wish it was ethical to keep them as pets.
microcapybara@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Thank you 😊 they are — I love their chill attitude. I make do quite well with the micro version although guinea pigs are, justifiably, more skittish.