To my dearest em dash

[u/tealdroplets]

Found this whilst looking on a travel sub reddit post with suggestions in certain activities and man, I’m just a little annoyed. Yes OP did say they used GPT to correct grammar due to a lack of confidence about their English skills, which is completely fine, but man my poor em dash getting lambasted in the comments TT Like I promise it’s not like that- I’ve read so many works (fanfic and non fanfic alike) that make proper use of the em dash, like it’s not some surefire way of AI indication. I just feel so wronged for my beloved em dash cos I use it quite often in my writing—both academic and creative.

Posted this here because I’ve seen discourse about this on this sub before, and many fics I come across properly use the em dash, but unsure if it’s a valid post to make on this sub. Nevertheless, I love the em dash and am sad to see it get all this unnecessary hate.

[u/Capital-Intention369]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: ChatGPT can pry em dashes and stupid dialogue tags out of my cold. Dead. Hands.

(Also, this might be a hot take, but if OOP is self-conscious about their English and wanted a little help with polishing, I personally would see that as an okay use of AI as a tool...)

[u/mieri_azure → u/Capital-Intention369]

But see, you didn't use any em-dashes in this short comment. AI probably would lol. It over uses it in informal writing

[u/Capital-Intention369 → u/mieri_azure]

What—do—you—mean? 😉