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The emdash allergy is shortcut sheep mindset. Emdashes are commonly accepted and orthographically correct punctuation in many languages.

Also it looks like English might not be the author’s first language—might not lead to the best training corpus.

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I speak English, I don't even know how to create one on my keyboard - is it a mac thing? I literally never saw one until chatgpt started to generate them

Not sure if it was Mac or phone, and I'm not sure if it was strictly emdash or one of the other seemingingly hundreds of different length dashes, but there was a time at least that -- would be rewritten to it. Also macs have this really really annoying habit of changing the dash when copying and pasting (but not always) so the nunver of times copying a bash command errors because it wasn't a dash, or I've copied a command to WhatsApp and the recipient got an error is enough to make me hate these clever dashes forever

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