I know I trapped myself into doom scrolling on Insta recently but almost all the descriptions on posts are generated with an AI and really poorly done where they don't even match up with the media being shown
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An em dash is --, two dashes. It's a way to break up a sentence -- sort of like a comma.
Apparently AI uses them a lot.
Why not just use one dash....?
Different length dashes serve different grammatical purposes, so you can assume they didn't just use one dash because they intended to use two.
Funnily enough, the "dash" people use most often isn't even technically called a dash, it's a hyphen.
I believe an em dash is a legitimate, albeit not common outside of written works, grammatical thingamadoo.
They’re quite common if you use iOS. The autocorrect changes 2 regular -‘s into one — em dash.
Well yes, iOS does those grammatical changes.
What I mean is the em dash is less common today then in the past, but the wealth of written works including them has “trained” AI that humans use it everywhere.
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I wonder how many times I've been given away then.
Em I don't know. Just seems like a dash with ah New Zealand accent, eh.