MU Peeves Thread
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@ten You can tell my em dashes are legit because I always use them — incorrectly.
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My em-dashes, my semicolons, and my words of more than three syllables. Ain’t giving them up in order to write ‘less like AI’. LLMs are mimicking me, not the other way around.
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Wait, is this a thing? Oh, fuck AI. That’s how to give sentences flavor! Nuh uh. A million percent not changing.
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I’ve had to turn the auto-convert feature off in Word for when I do my – (that is two hyphens, often converted to a dash of some kind, be it en or em. I never learned the difference.) because it was getting pulled up by the anti-AI checker on my submitted work and it’s easier to just… not deal with that.
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@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’ve had to turn the auto-convert feature off in Word for when I do my – (that is two hyphens, often converted to a dash of some kind, be it en or em. I never learned the difference.) because it was getting pulled up by the anti-AI checker on my submitted work and it’s easier to just… not deal with that.
Em Dash (—):
Roughly the width of a capital letter M. It’s used to create a break in a sentence, similar to how you’d use parentheses or colons.
En Dash (–):
Roughly the width of a capital letter N. It’s used to connect two words or show a range of numbers.
That’s literally it.
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@Aria said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’ve had to turn the auto-convert feature off in Word for when I do my – (that is two hyphens, often converted to a dash of some kind, be it en or em. I never learned the difference.) because it was getting pulled up by the anti-AI checker on my submitted work and it’s easier to just… not deal with that.
Em Dash (—):
Roughly the width of a capital letter M. It’s used to create a break in a sentence, similar to how you’d use parentheses or colons.
En Dash (–):
Roughly the width of a capital letter N. It’s used to connect two words or show a range of numbers.
That’s literally it.
oh my god i have literally never known why they were called Em and En, this is mind-blowing. and will ACTUALLY be helpful in remembering which is which
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@Aria said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’ve had to turn the auto-convert feature off in Word for when I do my – (that is two hyphens, often converted to a dash of some kind, be it en or em. I never learned the difference.) because it was getting pulled up by the anti-AI checker on my submitted work and it’s easier to just… not deal with that.
Em Dash (—):
Roughly the width of a capital letter M. It’s used to create a break in a sentence, similar to how you’d use parentheses or colons.
En Dash (–):
Roughly the width of a capital letter N. It’s used to connect two words or show a range of numbers.
That’s literally it.
Monospace fonts mean they are indistinguishable, wheeeee.
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@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’ve had to turn the auto-convert feature off in Word for when I do my – (that is two hyphens, often converted to a dash of some kind, be it en or em. I never learned the difference.) because it was getting pulled up by the anti-AI checker on my submitted work and it’s easier to just… not deal with that.
This is why I have this much >< (it’s zero) faith in anything “AI” at this juncture, including detection methods. If an en-/em-dash user is getting flagged for actually using them correctly, then I don’t know what else to tell you other than look at this GIF to illustrate my point:
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@Aria I’m going to just go with my usual standard of randomly throwing a dash of some kind in and hoping Grammarly doesn’t yell at me.
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@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
hoping Grammarly doesn’t yell at me.
Grammarly won’t yell at you now that it’s LLM based. It loves those em-dashes.
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@MisterBoring I actually use LanguageTool now but I imagine it’s much the same.
