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AI is right about em-dashes

by velcrovan on 4/24/25, 7:50 PM with 2 comments

• by JohnFen on 4/24/25, 9:59 PM

  Hrm.

  I've been regularly using em-dashes in my writing for most of my life -- including this sentence. Now I'm thinking, despite the plea of this article, that I should stop doing that. I absolutely don't want my writing to resemble the output of LLMs.

• by monoid73 on 4/24/25, 9:11 PM

  funny enough, i started noticing em dashes mostly through using GPT. wasn’t really part of my writing before, but now i find them super useful for managing rhythm and flow. definitely earned their place — not because LLMs use them, but because they actually work. (says ChatGPT in response to this post)