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| ▲ | stingraycharles 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| There are many people, myself included, who have been using em-dashes a lot since forever. I wouldn’t consider it a “definite flag”, the letter itself feels authentic. |
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| ▲ | kmacdough 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| She could well have written in third person. She was watching herself dying slowly, separating further and further from her life. If it felt like I was already dead towards the end, I might just run with it when writing my life story. Just leave a few fill-in-the-blanks for details like the date and ceremony details for hubby to fill in. The title is close enough. Censored, missed a comma and skipped the secondary title. Very human choices and mistakes. Not sure why we'd expect a dying loving woman to be hyper focused on getting the title of her book right. |
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| ▲ | jedberg 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag. Good writers have been using em dashes for years -- that's why AIs keep using them. :) |
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| ▲ | WhyCause 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Also, MS Word auto-corrects <space>-<space> into an em-dash just like it fixes quotes. Depending on which software was used to write it, it's very likely that's what happened. I'm never suspicious of only one em-dash, as they are a perfectly valid, if infrequent punctuation. Three or more in an article this length would make start looking at the rest of it more closely, though. |
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| ▲ | 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | mercwear 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe she liked to use AI. |
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| ▲ | cactusplant7374 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > (Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? That's not even the title of the book!) Perhaps there is some moderation happening on the blog. |
