Really sad 😢:

“Why ChatGPT Is Casting Unfair Suspicion Upon The Em Dash”, The Globe And Mail (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-em-dash-artificial-intelligence-punctuation-authorship/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867692

#English #Grammar #Punctuation #AI #AISlop #LLMs #GenAI #Language

I *love* em dashes. In fact, I sometimes wonder if I over use them in my writing. Can you over use em dashes?!

All hail the em dash!

https://bsky.app/profile/merrileeiam.bsky.social/post/3lu4ct46nbs2g #EmDash #writing #grammar #punctuation

As a lifelong user of em dashes and en dashes, I can never forgive ChatGPT for the cloud of suspicion it has hung over me...

I hesitate to use them — and it breaks my heart.

https://xkcd.com/3126/

#xkcd #ChatGPT #punctuation #HalfHeartedFanatic

My Defense Of Exclamation Points

They're just happy to see you! Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/my-defense-of-exclamation-points-0756d42c75b

#exclamationmarks #theshortofit #creativewritingtips #punctuation #grammar
@indieauthors

I posted my 2013 essay on James Joyce’s “Dubliners” on my blog.

#JamesJoyce #Dubliners #Reverie #Punctuation #Grammar

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/08/street-light-casting-and-breaking-spell.html

Of course when you get down to it a simple #emDash is a bit indistinct, cramped and graceless for most body text. But you have options. Why not use them?

#typography #webDesign #punctuation

Scurrilous rumors are circulating that use of a closed-up em dash is evidence that writing is AI generated. But what does the em dash think of this? McSweeney's imagines the conversation.

"You think I showed up with ChatGPT? Mary Shelley used me… gratuitously. Dickinson? Obsessed. David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name. I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."

https://flip.it/jUYqLa

#Writing #AmWriting #Culture #Punctuation #EmDash #AI #ChatGPT