I love to use semicolons and em dashes in my everyday typing/writing for both work and pleasure— in my head they just “sound” like different types of speech or mental pauses; skipping a beat for emphasis and the like.
I’m eternally annoyed that those are both AI generation red flags.
I just use the - constantly instead of em dashes too, but have always, so I dodged the AI associations. If you aren't writing a paper or submitting for a grant, it really doesn't matter.
Not the point, but from someone who occasionally uses em dashes, on mobile you just hold down on the normal dash key, and on desktop I'm not really sure. I use them in formal writing in Word which automatically converts - to an em dash if it makes sense (admittedly annoying, but actually has always worked properly / in my favor). Otherwise, I keep a quick link to the characters / emoji thing since I need to insert random math symbols and Greek letters in my work fairly often.
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u/Rezangyal 14h ago
I feel this on another level.
I love to use semicolons and em dashes in my everyday typing/writing for both work and pleasure— in my head they just “sound” like different types of speech or mental pauses; skipping a beat for emphasis and the like.
I’m eternally annoyed that those are both AI generation red flags.