I genuinely was not really aware of em-dashes before all this – I just used hyphens and semi-colons in pretty much the same way. Now I use em-dashes because it’s so easy to do and I don’t want to look like a rube, but now I wonder if people think I’m AI.
Fortunately, nobody online really gives a fuck about me or anyone else.
I use em dashes more—as much as I can justify—because the hubbub made me think about them.
“Trump” is definitely AI here though.
I genuinely was not really aware of em-dashes before all this – I just used hyphens and semi-colons in pretty much the same way. Now I use em-dashes because it’s so easy to do and I don’t want to look like a rube, but now I wonder if people think I’m AI.
Fortunately, nobody online really gives a fuck about me or anyone else.