Em dashes and emojis
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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Or she actually cares about ponctuation. And that's a lost for you.
You just keep an Em Dash in a notepad to copy and paste all the time?
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I actually like using em dashes because it's the correct thing to do. Also the Oxford comma, correct use of semi colon, and listing things in threes.
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For me, it would take some of the sting out of the break-up.
I would think to myself, "damn, how did I not realize that I was dating a lazy moron?"
I long for the day when we stop giving a fuck about how many pixels a dash has.
Jesus fucking christ it is so insufferable how long this goes on for.
M—Dash is an AI red flag.
I'm a markdown nerd who likes to use headers to break up longer post and sometimes properly buletpoint or put ASCII art in preformatted boxes. People who thinks they have the magic sauce on LLM generation detection because a post goes out of their way to do more than the bre minimum with punctuation or formatting is an asshole.
This is a meme post about em dashes, dawg
From the post title, description, and other peoples comments, I took away that the meme is m9re about suspecting your ex didnt even write their own breakup message based off the use of em dashes.
Its a cute surface level joke but it touches in a real nerve because Its becoming more and more common for you to be falsely accused of being an LLM and being told to "ignore all previous instructions and (some stupid instruction) based off small writing quirks like using em or markdown and top comments share this frustration too.
I shouldn't have to feel self conscious about the way I write
Just to pass armchair llm detector wannabe vibe checks 🖕.
Any time someone accuses me of being a bot I respond with "Tiananmen Winnie the Pooh 8647 Luigi Mangione" and that generally proves my humanity
I'm gonna steal that if you don't mind
Oh so you're the AI
Tiananmen Winnie the Pooh 8647 Luigi Mangione
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I mean most people are going to use their phones to write messages and given you can’t physically type an em dash it would be normal to be suspicious if you see one.
Edit: turns out you can physically type them. Still, given that it’s not normal to use them it’s a sign in my book.
— try long pressing your phone keyboards hyphen key.
Ok. You can physically type them I concede, but normal humans don’t use them. Still a sign.
I would bet that the amount of non proof writers that uses em dashes goes up just because people see that it’s associated with ai and want to be funny.
Several friends and I have always used them. They’re such a fun punctuation mark.
Yah but your user name is “LanguageIsCool” and you talk about the fun levels of various types of punctuation. You are definitely the outlier here. A cool outlier but an outlier none the less.
I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.
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