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We used to infer one’s mind from their writing. Nowadays?

I’m surprised people are too lazy to even remove them dashes. Well, in fact it might actually be a good thing for one can spot when something was AI generated much easier.

I feel like original writing is pretty much dead these days. We’re all best selling authors now.

I've been (over) using em-dashes ever since I discovered them. I have no intention of changing.

Curiously, I find in editing my dad's auto-biography that a certain generation went crazy over-inserting commas — wherever they think you might want to pause to take a breath or something. To my eye (ear?) the result is a staccato sentence.

But the truth is I know nothing about grammar rules — I slept through sentence diagramming in elementary school.

This reads like original writing to me. Too creative for LLMs, at least based on my experience.

I used em-dashes before ChatGPT became a thing, I will keep using them.

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