people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?
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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edit - 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..
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Most people aren't taking the time to type in
ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke. But there is enough of a distinction that some people (like you and I) will use the proper punctuation when there is an opportunity to do so.What I find far more suspicious is the unicode hyphen, because no human would be able to tell the difference, and would therefore always choose to input a minus.
Not sure, if that's a Linux thing, but I can press
Alt Grand-to get an en-dash, as wellAlt GrandShiftand-to get an em-dash.Mine gives me \ for
AltGr+-and ¿ forAltGr+shift+-but that's probably a keyboard layout thingProbably depends on the desktop environment, on Sway by default I need to use the compose key.
If I hold the - on my phone I get –—¯
Most people aren’t taking the time to type in ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4 when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke.
emacs:
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C-x 8 _ m -
C-x 8 RET e m SPC d TAB RET
emacs using input methods
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C-\ T e X RETto enter TeX input method.- - -to enter an em dash when in that input method. -
C-\ s g m l RETto enter sgml input method.& m d a s h ;to enter an em dash when in that input method. -
C-\ r f c 1 3 4 5 RETto enter rfc1345 input method.& - Mto enter an em dash when in that input method.
For X11 or Wayland, if you have assigned a key to be Compose: Compose and then three hyphens to get an em dash.
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You don’t have type all of that. E.g. on iOS you type two dashes and it is automatically converted to an emdash.
Fair, but then again, iOS autocorrect isn't exactly not AI.
it’s not
It isn't not not AI? Double-negatives have thrown me for a loop here.
I promise I’m not AI when I test this out:
Beep boop bop—I’m a computer!
Regular dash: -
Em dash: —
(Apparently you can also hold the dash key down and it will give you a couple of different dash options and also a dot)