| ▲ | bccdee 8 hours ago | |||||||
To be fair, LLMs usually use em-dashes correctly, whereas I think this document misuses them more often than not. For example: > This can be extraordinarily powerful for summarizing documents — or of answering more specific questions of a large document like a datasheet or specification. That dash shouldn't be there. That's not a parenthetical clause, that's an element in a list separated by "or." You can just remove the dash and the sentence becomes more correct. | ||||||||
| ▲ | NobodyNada 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
LLMs also generally don't put spaces around em dashes — but a lot of human writers do. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | the_af 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I don't know whether that use of the em-dash is grammatically correct, but I've seen enough native English writers use it like that. One example is Philip K Dick. | ||||||||