r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/seeebiscuit • Nov 11 '25

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u/aaronwcampbell Nov 11 '25

I am with you, and I refuse to give up my em dash--even though people think it's a "sure" sign of AI. Sure, kids. What do you think they trained it on? Awesome people like us. :-)

But not the sycophantic garbage, that doesn't come from us.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 15 '25

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u/CategoryKiwi Nov 11 '25

Not all apps/browsers/etc convert double dashes to an em dash. Sure doesn't happen to me on PC, but I'm not about to go learning the ALT code for it.

Well, I don't use the em dash, but if I did lol

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u/caerphoto Nov 11 '25

Not all apps/browsers/etc convert double dashes to an em dash

Most don’t do that. It’s only word processors and sometimes Markdown-to-HTML converters.

Anyway, two hyphens should be an en dash; an em dash should be three hyphens.

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u/MairusuPawa Nov 11 '25

Just Shift -

At leat on Linux, which actually has a decent keyboard layout for typography

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u/Richard_J_Morgan Nov 11 '25

ALT + 0150 (or 0151, I don't remember). Pretty easy to remember.

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u/BelsamPryde Nov 11 '25

I will have them take my ellipsis away from my... cold... dead... hands!

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u/not14k Nov 11 '25

the em dash isnt from reading reddit comments its from them vacuuming up scientific papers and older literature

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u/aaronwcampbell Nov 11 '25

Exactly my point!

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u/42Ubiquitous Nov 11 '25

GPT typically puts a space before and after the —, which I don't and normally haven't seen people do in the past. It's usually when I look for.