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rappatic ◴[] No.43500583[source]
I use em dashes all the time in writing, but unfortunately ChatGPT and co. use the em dash frequently—and most people use the em dash infrequently, not knowing how to type it on a keyboard—so it's starting to make my writing look AI-generated sometimes. I fear it'll have to go the way of words like "tapestry."

FWIW, you can type an em dash on Mac with shift + option + hyphen.

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fastball ◴[] No.43500660[source]
I use them as well. For blog posts I suppose I'll need to switch to regular hyphens lest people think all my writing is LLM-spam.

That said, I don't even think you need the [shift] for em dash on Mac – just [option] + [hyphen] works for me.

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1. contact9879 ◴[] No.43500738[source]
That's an en-dash
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2. fastball ◴[] No.43501324[source]
Oh yeah, true. They look the exact same in the HN editor haha