What’s The Point of Picking on the Em Dash —Writers Use Them Too!
First and foremost, this article is written by a human: ME! I do use AI to generate images, though, until I master GIMP. Anyway, let’s talk about the newest victim of the internet grammar police —the EM dash. See, I used it. It’s right there in the symbols section. Writers have used it forever, but because AI has been programmed on that data and can blurt out responses using proper punctuation, human writers are being accused of losing their voice. If the text contains proper punctuation, no way it was written by a human. Why? Because humans are known to be lazy, and to respond in slang and abbreviations. And when there were no abbreviations, humans invented them so that they wouldn’t have to type in long sentences. So if you see a message or comment online that uses (shockingly) good grammar, then it is assumed that a human is not capable of showing professionalism. That they must have taken the easy way out and used AI. But let’s face facts. AI is ...