Kagan MacTane (he/him)I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@kagan @raganwald so, you're the culprit behind those cursed m-dashes?
Please explain: why were normal dashes insufficient? What need did m-dash fill? And why are there no spaces around them?
#neverMdash
Please explain: why were normal dashes insufficient? What need did m-dash fill? And why are there no spaces around them?
#neverMdash
> why were normal dashes insufficient? What need did m-dash fill?
Here's a decent quick guide to the difference between hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes: https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/types-of-dashes/
@kagan @raganwald aha. So, it seems I can continue to ignore m-dashes:
'it typically takes the place of certain other punctuation marks: namely commas, parentheses, colons, and semicolons."
… since I am a big fan of using commas, parentheses, colons, and semicolons.