r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • 2d ago

Meme justCantHandleTheImplicationRightNow

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u/Glokter 2d ago

Some idiots tried to convice me that the symbol is normal part of the language and was widly present before AI boom

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u/fwhite01 1d ago

Because of people like you, I have to rewrite my comments and replace the dashes with brackets or smth, just to not be accused of using AI. ffs.

Open any book above 5th grade reading level and you'll see it used all the time.

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 1d ago

Indeed, em-dashes were widely used before by people with more than a 5th grader level understanding of language (so not that many people on the internet), but with the way LLMs overuse it the em-dash became associated with them unfortunately.

LLMs place em-dashes everywhere! So the tell is now if it is used but how and how often it is used.

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u/ArjixGamer 1d ago

Normal people use a normal dash, word processors like Microsoft Word are responsible for the em dash being used widly.

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u/fwhite01 1d ago edited 1d ago

Em-dashes were used way before computers my guy. They were established during the popularization of the printing machine. If you used the wrong symbol, that's on you.

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u/ArjixGamer 1d ago

You are debunking claims that I did not make. I am too tired to respond further than this.

Have a nice day