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I have started using —ahem— em dashes more regularly so people think I am as smart —well clever at least— as AI.
by SethMurphy 1y ago
I have started using —ahem— em dashes more regularly so people think I am as smart —well clever at least— as AI.
- drooby 1y agoIt's not just about using well placed em dashes — it's about creating a sense of awe and enlightenment.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI agree. I could drop using em-dashes. I feel though like the narrative feels broken up. It stops and starts too frequently.
- robocat 1y agoI'd like to do a study whether there's a correlation between liking emdashes and disliking curly brace languages. I find emdashes hard to parse and I don't like them without extra spacing. The punctuation in English feels kinda sucky (and implicit variables suck) compared to some programming languages.