The type of dash you prefer is ultimately a style choice, but many style guides recommend the em dash for enclosing clauses ...
The thing is, the phrase “no fluff” is intrinsically fluff, and many Redditors have expressed distaste in how often it’s used ...
AI models follow certain structural rules when generating text. This can make it easier to identify their writing. They tend towards contrasts, for example: "It's not X -- it's Y." The past few years ...
A debate surrounds the em dash, dubbed the 'ChatGPT hyphen'. Gen Z and social media users link it to AI content. However, literary figures like Jane Austen used it too. Its presence in AI stems from ...
In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they're reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot - or is ...
Do you have an em dash problem? No? Lucky you. I do and, until the other day, I didn’t even know it was a problem. What is an em dash, you ask? Sorry, I should have ...
It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...
Presidential candidates and em dash users Joe Biden, Beto O'Rourke, and Cory Booker. Credit: MASHABLE COMPOSITE / ROBYN BECK / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES / Sean Rayford / Scott Eisen VIA GETTY IMAGES The ...
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...