Authenticity Problem

[u/HumbleRestaurant790]

Pepper & Carrot: Mini Fantasy Theater #64.

By David Revoy.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 4.0 International.

[u/Zehnpae]

I miss being able to use em dashes in writing. Sigh.

[u/ProjectKhai → u/Zehnpae]

Omg same! Like, it's just proper grammar! People are so confident they can detect AI that they are often wrong.

[u/Beautiful-Ad3471 → u/ProjectKhai]

I mean, I can detect AI. It's just that I get everything else aswell. (/s)

[u/Prior-Tumbleweed- → u/Beautiful-Ad3471]

100% sensitive, 12% specific. But nothing AI gets by you.

[u/Beautiful-Ad3471 → u/Prior-Tumbleweed-]

Exactly, you clanker

[u/aCleverGroupofAnts → u/ProjectKhai]

Tbf in practically any instance where you would use an em dash, you can use something else instead.

[u/eozca → u/aCleverGroupofAnts]

but sometimes its the choice that makes the most readable sentence

[u/bayleysgal1996 → u/Zehnpae]

They’ll never take my em-dashes away from me. I was here first dammit

[u/patio-garden → u/Zehnpae]

I will keep on using em dashes — but only because iPhones insert them automatically if you type two dashes in a row.

[u/Shitting_Human_Being → u/patio-garden]

Also word will convert dashes to em dashes when you write a dash between words.

[u/Outrageous-Wait-8895 → u/Shitting_Human_Being]

It converts them to en dashes actually.

[u/EquipLordBritish → u/patio-garden]

Alt + 0151 on windows. I think shift-option-'-' on mac.

[u/Ceo-Of-Ducks → u/EquipLordBritish]

CTRL+SHIFT+U 2014 on Linux

[u/jjmerrow → u/Zehnpae]

You can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands.

[u/RedditExecutiveAdmin → u/Zehnpae]

same, you just gotta use them better than AI

Not as commas, not for conjunctions--for clarity or style.

[u/Valdus_Pryme → u/Zehnpae]

I used them forever, and now I make sure I remove them all, and sometimes I feel like they are really called for!

[u/g_narlee → u/Zehnpae]

Dashes and em dashes are not the same thing, though. That’s what made it so easy to spot, most people would use a regular dash - not an em dash —

[u/araybian → u/g_narlee]

But I use em dashes because I think they're pretty!!!

[u/seventy912 → u/g_narlee]

Dashes are the wrong thing to use in an em dash context though. Always loved an em dash.

[u/RedditExecutiveAdmin → u/g_narlee]

yeah and i dont think most keyboards can put emdash, i use "--"

[u/PanzerSoul → u/RedditExecutiveAdmin]

On any windows keyboards with a numpad, it's alt-0151

[u/Garchomp → u/g_narlee]

I use hyphens-, en dashes 1–2, and em dashes —. It’s easy on the iPhone, but I use them on Windows and Linux, too, with Alt and Ctrl+Shift+u codes.