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minus-squareThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down10·3 days agoThere’s no debate, no one real uses em dash. Where is the em dash key on the keyboard?
minus-squarecodeinabox@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoThere are plenty of humans using em dash, how do you think large language models learnt to use them in the first place? NPR even did an episode on it called Inside the unofficial movement to save the em dash — from A.I.
minus-squareTotally Human Emdash User@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoIt turns out that modern software supports something called “Copy and Paste” that makes it easy to insert an em-dash whenever—and wherever—you want.
minus-squaresping@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoCompose minus minus for me. I use it frequently.
There’s no debate, no one real uses em dash. Where is the em dash key on the keyboard?
There are plenty of humans using em dash, how do you think large language models learnt to use them in the first place? NPR even did an episode on it called Inside the unofficial movement to save the em dash — from A.I.
It turns out that modern software supports something called “Copy and Paste” that makes it easy to insert an em-dash whenever—and wherever—you want.
Compose minus minusfor me. I use it frequently.