MU Peeves Thread
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EM DASH FOR LYFE. AI SCREW OFF.
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@ten You can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands. I’ve been (over)using them longer than LLMs have been in existence!
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YES.
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some of my poses might contain more em-dashes than actual sentences so this all feels like a personal attack
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@Pyrephox said in MU Peeves Thread:
@ten You can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands. I’ve been (over)using them longer than LLMs have been in existence!
I’m in this picture; as a semi-colon user, I can empathize.
(SEE HOW I DID THAT?)
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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.
Any pronouns. Come to Chincoteague. We have ponies. http://keys.aresmush.com
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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.
