- I just saw a post alleging that among the “tells” a post is written by ChatGPT is use of an em dash—not to be confused with its younger sibling the en dash, or lil’ baby hyphen—and frankly fuck that. The noble em dash is maybe the most versatile punctuation—I use it constantly.Feb 27, 2025 16:28
- I use em dashes so much that once one of my editors told me that she could identify the passages of RPG books that I wrote by the number of em dashes. 😬