Jason Anthony GuyTo all the “em-dashes are an obvious sign of AI” people, here’s me writing in 1986 for my high school computer magazine.
Yes, I’ve been using em dashes since I was a teenager.
AI my ass.
Here’s another, from 1987, in double-dash form.
(Alas I wasn’t on the typography team or that would’ve been a closed up, single character em-dash.)
Quinn “The Eskimo!”@JasonAnthonyGuy “Closed up em dashes” falls into the same “weirdly retro American typography“ bucket as “closing quote after the full stop”, so maybe you were just operating under more progressive rules (-:
@justkwin Heh. I was only five years removed from my West Indian—and therefore British—education, and years before i read “The Mac is not a typewriter,” so it’s plausible!
But! Doesn’t Oxford Style Manual prefer the (closed) em dash or the (open) en dash, but not the (open) em dash?
Tim Triemstra@JasonAnthonyGuy guess we know who's been training all those AIs...