xd1936 5 hours ago

Continue to write with em dashes. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

I did at the beginning, but there is only so much you can take, and no one cares if you have read books and seen it before. There were a bunch of programmers whom I thought would understand em dashes, but they did not and said no one uses such dashes only normal hyphens.

Em dashes ended up as one of the first victims of llm age

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TeMPOraL 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Em dashes were already "doomed" at least half a century ago, because they didn't make it into ASCII character set - which arguably is just because they were seen as redundant on ancient typewriters; that's also why they aren't there on normal keyboards, which was a double whammy: inconvenient for programmers to support, inconvenient for users to type.

In other words, since the very start of computer era, the use of em dashes was always a signal.

	▲	jamie_ca an hour ago \| parent [-]
		At least with a typewriter, if - was sized right you could -- for an emdash.