Yeah every same human would use m-dashes in their sentences — it just makes sense

throw1234567891 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I use em-dashes. Just get over the fucking thing. Wow, you're so money supermarket. And if you're going to use one to drive the point—use it correctly because you come across as an ignorant.

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tcballard 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Regardless - the emdash predated LLMs … but that’s going way off topic!

	▲	croon 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Regardless - the emdash predated LLMs … but that’s going way off topic! I'm too OCD to not point out this time it was a minus.

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jorisw 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Em-dashes predate LLMs and are legitimate punctuation. Are we going to ban/dismiss any pattern now that emerges from these things?

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slopinthebag 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not the em dashes, it's the sentence flow and the incorrect use of terms like "load-bearing".

Also this user created an even newer account at the same time as posting this to drive engagement. /tinfoil-hat off

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tcballard 2 days ago | parent [-]

you mean I started a newer account? This is my first time posting on HR for things… so I’m new here, play nice!

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dontwannahearit a day ago | parent [-]

And uses U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS instead of typing three periods? Also seems like LLM tell. But could just be a very efficient typist

	▲	tcballard a day ago \| parent [-]
		that’s just autocomplete when you type using a phone? Regardless of the semantics on language though, thoughts on the actual product?

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Cthulhu_ 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Use triple emdashes to look extra sane⸻like this.

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LoganDark 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What? Em-dash is option-shift-hyphen on Mac... it's easy to use them. I used to use them. I even used to grab hair-spaces to place on either side of them, as one should (though that doesn't work on HN).

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Cthulhu_ 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah but a regular - is just a single button press, why would I learn this keyboard combination if I never learned how / when to use emdashes in the first place?

	▲	LoganDark 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I found out one day that the keyboard combination results in an em-dash, so now I use it where I would use an em-dash. I never went out of my way to inconvenience myself learning both the keyboard combination and the knowledge of where to apply it together. I just happen to have picked up how em-dashes are used, and I just happen to have picked up the keyboard combination to produce them, and so sometimes I will produce an em-dash where one can be used. I also tend to produce en-dashes in the same way (Option-Hyphen) when I express a range, as that is a way en-dashes can be used. These arguments are so weird. It's like you assume I set out to learn my exact workflow rather than evolving it over time. My workflow is the sum of everything I know to apply, it's not a single algorithm I set out to learn all at once. If you don't care then you don't care, I'm not trying to justify it to you, only to say I exist and that others like me might too.