Em dashes and emojis
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Most normal people, at least from my understanding, don't use em dashes in text messages, let alone even use punctuation half the time. So if I see em dashes, yeah, my first thought is going straight to AI.
Annoyingly I've used them for a number of years as a good way to make internet comments flow a bit more. However I find myself doing it less and less now because I'm worried people are just going to think I'm using an AI if they see an em dash.
(You just long press dash on android to get to it, opt+shift+dash on Mac, and the admittedly Byzantine alt+0151 on windows. Can't remember iOS off the top of my head, but I think it's similar to android)
Given that most people won't even bother with punctuation at all, a long press for something they've likely never heard of before is so vanishingly unlikely it is more than safe to assume llm generation.
I use them all the time. I typically have -- auto correct to — so its super easy
Super simple on iOS—double hyphen!
(On the second press of the dash button, the dashes automatically joined 👆)
I don't use em dashes but I do use punctuation (apparently some people find that passive aggressive and I don't what to do). When someone else uses punctuation I just ignore it unless it doesn't match their previous messages.
i use those a lot to indicate that i finished a thought rapidly (in most cases)
like "what the fu—"
I’m a fiend for a dash - they’re just better
If you were actually a fiend for dashes, you'd have used an em dash—not used a hyphen as a stand-in for one.
Ah well - maybe I’m just a fiend for a wrongly used hyphen 🤷♂️. I don’t think I would ever notice which one someone was using.
I used to :(