Technically your em-dashes are wrong. em-dashes are generally not meant to be surrounded by spaces—unlike en-dashes, which the Germans use for speaking their German language – a truly marvelous one, probably.
Practically, have fun! Rules for language don't matter.
@divVerent Germans use en-dashes? That's possible, but I'd love some explanation. I see Germans use mostly hyphens or em-dashes, and for "speaking" we have quotation marks (that are different from the English style ones I used just there).
I have taken the same position on semicolons; a perfectly cromulent punctuation that nobody, including me, uses correctly. And yet...like the ellipsis..they shall never take it from me.
Damn right. I’ve always been a bit embarrassed by how much I overuse em dashes — and, really, who wouldn’t be? — but I’ve decided THIS is the hill I’m gonna die on. They can’t take them away from us. Dash proudly.
@Dr. Amy, Psy.D. @Edward Tjörnhammar This is the reason I don't trust those LLM detection tools any more than I trust the LLMs themselves. It's all cheap* parlour tricks.
* Actually, they're rather expensive, but you know what I mean.
rob
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. • • •Hell yeah!
EMDASH FTW!
and in my case,
ELLIPSES FTW!
Dr. Amy, Psy.D.
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. • • •they've always been out of my grasp due to a reliance on Windows and Linux. Having a keyboard without a numpad has really finished it.
It's a shame cus I do associate them with people that do the good writing with sentences and all.
Longplay Games
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. • • •I'm just happy to see uppercase letters and a period at the end of a sentence.
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. • • •"You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands..."
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. • • •Technically your em-dashes are wrong. em-dashes are generally not meant to be surrounded by spaces—unlike en-dashes, which the Germans use for speaking their German language – a truly marvelous one, probably.
Practically, have fun! Rules for language don't matter.
Dr. Amy, Psy.D.
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. • •@Dr. Amy, Psy.D. @Edward Tjörnhammar This is the reason I don't trust those LLM detection tools any more than I trust the LLMs themselves. It's all cheap* parlour tricks.
* Actually, they're rather expensive, but you know what I mean.
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