you’ve been hit by — you’ve been struck by — an angry_autist

i get the point, though. the “em” and “en” dashes are products of typography, so they’re not really “linguistic” insomuch as “stylistic”. just like my obnoxious use of quotes, they help to clarify language, but they’re not really part of it and are really only subjective. i disagree with some of the way it was worded and some of the things said, but the post is solid, even if just a bit off-topic.

my REAL beef is between hyphens and en-dashes. those fuckers are the same dude, and i’ll burn down your house if you disagree with me

i have three reasons i’d like to share about why i disagree, but now i’m self-conscious :P

thanks - and i guess that’s the point i should have emphasized. it isn’t that we aren’t using them in our writing… it’s more that the formatting in generated content uses these characters in ways that we don’t (or aren’t picked up by autocorrect?) when we write authentically

thank you, fellow human.

gotta say i’m a bit deflated. you built up so much weirdo energy that i expected a payoff. we were on the verge of putting the lotion in the basket. we could have been so much more

um… cheese?

why do i feel like you wear masks in private?

slow clap

dem durr lrrns dun duk ur jrrbs!!

sorry.

don’t worry - i do a lot of the same things (well, sometimes…). it’s all good - and the true beauty of language is the freedom to express it aS y0U w!sH!

my suspicion regards the usage. colloquially, we use these dashes interchangeably. nobody is measuring your dash size (unless maybe the president).

the suspicion arrives when this formatting occurs under circumstances where the autocorrect kicks in.

or maybe i’m just on crack. i’d appreciate any thoughts.

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that’s the breath of somewhat-unpredicted fresh air i was hoping to breathe

edit- i should add that i don’t mean “predicted” in the llm sense.

oh, i see you’re non-binary

thank you.

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11/10 i made these and my children are literally glowing with happiness now

aw, you got me! dot dot dot DASH dot dot do dot dot

i use “ye”, too, but only at renaissance festivals

nope. i’m an insomniac, so stimulants aren’t really my thing. plus, i grew up in the 90s us south and can’t ever forget jeff foxworthy saying “i’ll never do a drug named after a part of my own ass”

what aren’t? i pick up vices like a swiffer picks up lint.

some people have “addictive personalities”, but mine is off the charts. problem is, it only pertains to the self-destructive ones.

cheesy, i know, but i love this quote from dave matthews: “a rolling stone gathers no moss but leaves a trail of busted stuff”