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Yes, I know what an emdash is---I've been using them in my writing since long before they came to the fore of the AI writing conversation. Anthropic's use of th
by caconym_ 16d ago
Yes, I know what an emdash is---I've been using them in my writing since long before they came to the fore of the AI writing conversation. Anthropic's use of the emdash in the fragment I quoted is clumsy and reads poorly relative to the obvious alternative, a comma.
- droidjj 16d agoI didn’t mean to suggest you don’t know what an em dash is. But you said “this isn’t how you use them.” And my response is: actually, this use of them is totally fine.
- caconym_ 16d agoWell, I disagree! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527581 It's fine in the sense that when a bad writer writes something I can usually understand what they're trying to say.