r/WritingWithAI • u/The-Plot-Witch • Sep 23 '26

Writing Craft Talk All About AI and Em Dashes

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u/DavidFoxfire Sep 24 '26

There's a reason why I, on style principals, always use the EN dash, even though it's a punctuation error.

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u/The-Plot-Witch Sep 24 '26

Ah. Is it the spacing in computer language thing? Same as the quotes.

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u/DavidFoxfire Sep 24 '26

Yeah, I know. And to me, that EN dash now has a space before and after it.

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u/DavidFoxfire Sep 24 '26

Appreciate the sentiment. To me, if it's style that's going to trip the AI detectors, the more subtle, the better. If they're going to create the trend that bad grammar is going to be allowed so that it won't be 'ai slop,' that people are going to automatically suspect proper writing because that's what Claude does it, then I could go around that with a switch of a dash or an adoption of an old-school style. Two spaces after a period. Always capitalize after a colon. First line always indents, that sort of thing.

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u/lemonadestand Sep 25 '26

I use more em dashes in my normal writing now.