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minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up17·5 days agoShould have snuck an em dash in there if you really want to rile people up
minus-squarecravl@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days agoI’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoLol same… I used to have the alt code for em dash memorized (back when I used Windows)
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 days agoSame. As an extremely verbose and descriptive writer, I take umbrage at the whole em dash debacle. Can’t a man even punctuate anymore!?
To bother you
Should have snuck an em dash in there if you really want to rile people up
I’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
Lol same… I used to have the alt code for em dash memorized (back when I used Windows)
Same. As an extremely verbose and descriptive writer, I take umbrage at the whole em dash debacle. Can’t a man even punctuate anymore!?