The em dash, one of the most versatile punctuation marks in English, has become widely associated with AI-generated text ...
In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they're reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot - or is ...
The extra-long hyphen known as the em dash is common in AI-generated text. While some writers have responded by choosing to avoid the punctuation mark, others are fighting back. If you're reading ...
Hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes are frequently tested punctuation marks in government exam descriptive writing papers. Hyphens connect words, en dashes show ranges or relationships, and em dashes ...
I’ve been told that I use too many dashes. My high school AP Language and Composition teacher would often draw an X through each dash I used in my essays, suggesting that they detracted from the ...
It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...
Theo W. Tobel ’27 — a Crimson Editorial editor — is a Philosophy and Neuroscience concentrator in Dunster House. But there is something far worse that LLMs are doing: They are taking away the em dash ...
According to Merriam-Webster — yes, I’m purposefully being cliche, the em dash can be used to separate extra information in place of a comma, colon, or parenthesis. Google Docs will now autocorrect ...