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Comment by AkashKaStudio | Hacker News Reader

The amount of em—dashes in there exhausted me lol

We used to infer one’s mind from their writing. Nowadays?

I’m surprised people are too lazy to even remove them dashes. Well, in fact it might actually be a good thing for one can spot when something was AI generated much easier.

I feel like original writing is pretty much dead these days. We’re all best selling authors now.

This reads like original writing to me. Too creative for LLMs, at least based on my experience.

I've been (over) using em-dashes ever since I discovered them. I have no intention of changing.

Curiously, I find in editing my dad's auto-biography that a certain generation went crazy over-inserting commas — wherever they think you might want to pause to take a breath or something. To my eye (ear?) the result is a staccato sentence.

But the truth is I know nothing about grammar rules — I slept through sentence diagramming in elementary school.

I used em-dashes before ChatGPT became a thing, I will keep using them.

I have started using —ahem— em dashes more regularly so people think I am as smart —well clever at least— as AI.

It's not just about using well placed em dashes — it's about creating a sense of awe and enlightenment.

I agree. I could drop using em-dashes. I feel though like the narrative feels broken up. It stops and starts too frequently.

I'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.

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