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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 months ago

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    — consistently—

    What kind of person — in academia or otherwise — actually uses em-dashes?

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      ✋

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        I love your username. Capys are so adorable. I wish it was ethical to keep them as pets.

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          Thank you 😊 they are — I love their chill attitude. I make do quite well with the micro version although guinea pigs are, justifiably, more skittish.

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      AI learned off people’s works. So a lot of people used to use them in writing, it seems.

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        Yes, in professional papers and journalism which is prevalant in training datasets.

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          I wonder what the venn diagram of “professors” and “people who write papers” is like 🤔

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      It’s a great punctuation. You could use commas, but emdash is nice.

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        It is, isn’t it?

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        I prefer parentheticals, but unless absolutely necessary, I try to write more simply because if I write how I actually think, it starts to get all John Sturat mill run-on sentence-y

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          I overuse the fuck out of parentheses. Emdash is helping me get over that, but I can relate.

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