people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?
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Just checked your home instance. feddit.org seems to be a Lemmy instance. I'm on Mbin, which is a totally different software. That could be the difference.
EDIT: Just checked how the comment appears your instance. It indeed shows up as one line instead of two on your Lemmy instance, though running that line through https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html confirms my suspicion that it shows it shows as an en dash, not an em dash.
On second thought, let's not go to the internet. 'tis a silly place.
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Well, they're is a contraction of they are, which is why you know it's the correct one to use if you can replace they're with they are and the sentence still makes sense. The word their is possessive so if you're talking about someone or even something possessing something else, you would use their. There is in reference to something or somewhere else.
I can't remember the specific rules I was taught in school, but I still know the correct usage many years later.
There was a snake over there, they're trying to find it now, cause it isn't native and none of our friends say it is their snake!
Now I feel bad. I was being facetious.
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Now I feel bad. I was being facetious.
Don't feel bad. Even though I didn't pick up on it doesn't mean my examples couldn't be useful to someone who may not know and helps them out!
If I could ask, how did you pick your Lemmy name? Does it mean something?
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01101100 00111111edit - honestly not a troll. is it the specific formatting of "em" dashes? i know for sure we use them all the time. or at least i do. but they're just dashes to me, so..
It's an identifier in social media, not in mainstream news.
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The em-dash is mostly used in books. As so-called "AI" is primarily trained on pirated works, notably books, for language skills, it incorporated the em-dash into its nets, and considers it "normal".
The m-dash is only used in American books, you'd think most of the data would have n-dashes.
PS am proofreader, will replace all your ugly m-dashes with n-dashes.
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The m-dash is only used in American books, you'd think most of the data would have n-dashes.
PS am proofreader, will replace all your ugly m-dashes with n-dashes.
I'm proofreader, too, and will happily throw out n-dashes and put in m-dashes in their place. Long live the m-dash!
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Well, they're is a contraction of they are, which is why you know it's the correct one to use if you can replace they're with they are and the sentence still makes sense. The word their is possessive so if you're talking about someone or even something possessing something else, you would use their. There is in reference to something or somewhere else.
I can't remember the specific rules I was taught in school, but I still know the correct usage many years later.
There was a snake over there, they're trying to find it now, cause it isn't native and none of our friends say it is their snake!
Whooooosh
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The whole em dash argument is bullshit propagated by LinkedIn lunatics with zero knowledge of AI, writing or typography.
Different types of dashes/hyphens have different uses. People who take care of their copy and understand the nuances of punctuation use em dashes regularly. People who are in a rush, typing on phones or simply who don't know any better, put the same en dash everywhere.
Em dashes is one of the things that LLMs actually do right for a change. Calling text with em dashes weird, unnatural or ai generated is like making fun of someone for using proper grammar or hygiene.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Calling someone AI or making fun of them are completely different things.
Using proper grammar isnt bad, but may still be unusual.
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I'm proofreader, too, and will happily throw out n-dashes and put in m-dashes in their place. Long live the m-dash!
My editor would sack you.
