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Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not ...
"I - keep - seeing - weird - long - dashes - in - posts," wrote a LinkedIn user on her page several months ago. "Yes, this is ...
The em dash has long been a favorite punctuation mark of writers everywhere. This lengthier dash can replace a comma or a colon. It’s also sometimes used to sum up info at the end of the ...
Women are giving a warning to anyone who uses ChatGPT as they say they've found one 'wild' detail is a dead giveaway. There ...
Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has compiled information on the usage of the em dash (—), en dash (–), and hyphen (-) in English writing. Em dashes function like commas, colons ...
Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using ...
According to some, there’s now a surefire way to spot ChatGPT use: the em dash. Yes, the punctuation mark officially defined by the width of one “em.” A favorite of James Joyce, Stephen King ...
For the last few months, a theory has been circulating on developer forums that one tell-tale sign is a surfeit of em dashes — the longest and proudest dash, the length of a lower-case m ...