• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    This is a bad take. I use em dashes if I feel it’s called for. It’s just proper grammar. We probably shouldn’t be making people dumb down the way they write so as to not be mistaken for AI.

    Read some books, you’ll see that it’s used all of the time.

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      1 day ago

      I use dashes all the time, but em-dashes? I don’t even know how to type those. I guess I could long-press the dash on my phone and select it, but… why?

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        10 hours ago

        Because people have their own styles of writing, and some people like the way they look/the rhythm they provide a sentence or paragraph.

        I’m not kidding when I say to read some books. They’re everywhere in actual literature.