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| ▲ | tyrabound 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's actually not em-dashes, they are en-dashes, which is either intentionally to deceive (e.g., swapped) or used incorrectly. Both of which are bad, it's up to everyone to decide on which is worse coming from MITality. |
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| ▲ | jacobolus 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Spaced en dashes – like this – are a correct and accepted typographical choice. Whether to use spaced en dashes or (spaced or unspaced) em dashes is a matter of taste or local convention, and varies from one publication to another. Other than a typo or two where the space was left out on one side of a dash, the dashes in this linked document are just fine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash | | |
| ▲ | phasefactor an hour ago | parent [-] | | I was not claiming they are not correct punctuation/syntax. My claim is just no one uses them that frequently... When you see dozens of them in the first few pages of a document it raises suspicion. |
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| ▲ | ghaff 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I am not an LLM and use em-dashes and they were house style in my last 20+ years of employment. The whole em dashes == AI thing needs to just stop. |
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| ▲ | phasefactor an hour ago | parent [-] | | It is more about the document containing more than sixty of them. They are a completely legitimate piece of punctuation, but even prolific pre-LLM users did not tend to go that wild with them. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I did not notice anything about the document in that regard that was worthy of note. |
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