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As a type nerd, I was very happy with Grammarly swapping my dashes to em dashes. But now everyone associates em dashes with AI, I can no longer enjoy that luxur
by mulhoon 6mo ago
As a type nerd, I was very happy with Grammarly swapping my dashes to em dashes. But now everyone associates em dashes with AI, I can no longer enjoy that luxury.
- teiferer 6mo agoI wonder how many people change how they express themselves just to sound less like AI.
- wubbfindel 6mo agoI've been a regular users of the em dash for years before it became associated with AI output — and I refuse to let that change me!
- GrinningFool 6mo agoI've always used the double-hyphen for m-dash -- it's a carry-over from learning to touch-type on a typewriter. Hopefully that's enough of a distinction...
- fernandotakai 6mo agoi do the same thing, but not for typewriter, but because back in my leopard/snow leopard days, i setup -- to transform into —. the thing is, i never setup it again but i kept typing --.
- Brajeshwar 6mo agoObsidian has a Community plugin called “Smart Typography”[1] which was updated 4 years ago. That is one of my very few default plugins. I want my quotes curly, em-dashes corrected, and arrows shown as arrows. These are also my defined rules in Grammarly (might be moving to LanguageTool). 1. https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography