I have been overusing em dashes and bulleted lists since the actual 80s, I'm sad to say. I spent much of the 90s manually typing "smart" quotes.

I have actually been deliberately modifying my long-time writing style and use of punctuation to look less like an LLM. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

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disillusioned a day ago | parent [-]

Alt + 0151, baby! Or... however you do it on MacOS.

But now, likewise, having to bail on emdashes. My last differentiator is that I always close set the emdash—no spaces on either side, whereas ChatGPT typically opens them (AP Style).

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piskov a day ago | parent | next [-]

Just use some typography layout with a separate layer. Eg “right alt” plus “-” for m-dash

Russians use this for at least 15 years

https://ilyabirman.ru/typography-layout/

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qingcharles 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm a savage, I just copy-paste them from Unicode sites.

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ksherlock a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the mac you just type — for an em dash or – for an en dash.

	▲	xp84 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Is this a troll? But anyway, it’s option-hyphen for a en-dash and opt-shift-hyphen for the em-dash. I also just stopped using them a couple years ago when the meme about AI using them picked up steam.

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