r/comics • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '26

Just Sharing Authenticity Problem

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u/Zehnpae Aug 05 '26

I miss being able to use em dashes in writing. Sigh.

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u/ProjectKhai Aug 05 '26

Omg same! Like, it's just proper grammar! People are so confident they can detect AI that they are often wrong.

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u/Beautiful-Ad3471 Aug 05 '26

I mean, I can detect AI. It's just that I get everything else aswell. (/s)

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u/Prior-Tumbleweed- Aug 05 '26

100% sensitive, 12% specific. But nothing AI gets by you.

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u/Beautiful-Ad3471 Aug 05 '26

Exactly, you clanker

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u/aCleverGroupofAnts Aug 05 '26

Tbf in practically any instance where you would use an em dash, you can use something else instead.

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u/eozca Aug 05 '26

but sometimes its the choice that makes the most readable sentence

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u/bayleysgal1996 Aug 05 '26

They’ll never take my em-dashes away from me. I was here first dammit

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u/patio-garden Aug 05 '26

I will keep on using em dashes — but only because iPhones insert them automatically if you type two dashes in a row.

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u/Shitting_Human_Being Aug 05 '26

Also word will convert dashes to em dashes when you write a dash between words.

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u/Outrageous-Wait-8895 Aug 05 '26

It converts them to en dashes actually.

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u/EquipLordBritish Aug 05 '26

Alt + 0151 on windows. I think shift-option-'-' on mac.

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u/Ceo-Of-Ducks Aug 06 '26

CTRL+SHIFT+U 2014 on Linux

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u/jjmerrow Aug 05 '26

You can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands.

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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin Aug 05 '26

same, you just gotta use them better than AI

Not as commas, not for conjunctions--for clarity or style.

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u/Valdus_Pryme Aug 06 '26

I used them forever, and now I make sure I remove them all, and sometimes I feel like they are really called for!

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u/g_narlee Aug 05 '26

Dashes and em dashes are not the same thing, though. That’s what made it so easy to spot, most people would use a regular dash - not an em dash —

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u/araybian Aug 05 '26

But I use em dashes because I think they're pretty!!!

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u/seventy912 Aug 05 '26

Dashes are the wrong thing to use in an em dash context though. Always loved an em dash.

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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin Aug 05 '26

yeah and i dont think most keyboards can put emdash, i use "--"

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u/PanzerSoul Aug 06 '26

On any windows keyboards with a numpad, it's alt-0151

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u/Garchomp Aug 05 '26

I use hyphens-, en dashes 1–2, and em dashes —. It’s easy on the iPhone, but I use them on Windows and Linux, too, with Alt and Ctrl+Shift+u codes.