Semicolons should separate related ideas; they should work as independent sentences though.
Em dashes–contrary to how most people use them–are for asides or supplementary information. I also see them used to show a conclusion–a direct response to a prior statement that doesn’t seem appropriate to put in a new sentence.
also me when people accuse me of being ai slop for using em dashes just because big tech trained their models by stealing authors work.
I like to use em, but I’m too lazy to tye them so I just use two regular dashes (–) which I guess I haven’t seen an LLM do yet.
Its actually wild to me that people who use LLMs don’t edit the output to make it look like it was not generated.
For me, the greatest giveaways are the emojis and bad formatting.
iOS automatically converts two endashes into an emdash for whatever that’s worth
just swap them out with semicolons; no one knows how they’re supposed to work anyway
Semicolons should separate related ideas; they should work as independent sentences though.
Em dashes–contrary to how most people use them–are for asides or supplementary information. I also see them used to show a conclusion–a direct response to a prior statement that doesn’t seem appropriate to put in a new sentence.