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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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i use both em and en dashes, though I'm a graphic designer so I guess I'm more interested in typography than the average person. but i always liked using them. learning that it was a telltale sign of AI writing was really disappointing.
I liked to sprinkle em dashes into my essays bc they can be quite nice for the flow of a sentence. I’m so glad I graduated a few years ago bc if LLMs had been a big thing the entire time I was at college my profs would have always suspected me of using them :(