• Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    if so then name your thing

    Sort of I guess: em dashes.

    Not to talk about, but to use when writing.
    Now they are apparently the hallmark of AI-generated crap.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve never been called out as AI for using them; but if I ever am, I have the strategy of knowing the alt code for them (0151). I even know the shortcut in word to insert one — pressing alt-X with your cursor at the end of “2014”. I also have a vscode macro set up that is just an emdash, just in case I’m in a situation where there’s not a way I know to insert one.