I’ve been a fan of em-dashes for a long time, mainly to try and make sentences more coherent without overusing commas, semicolons, and whatever the “…” is called. It’s just another piece of the grammatical jigsaw that allows written language to kinda have a voice. But I also don’t use an em-dash like 5 times in a paragraph
I just gotta long-press the dash symbol on my phone to use it — like so. Now on a physical keyboard, I gotta really want to use it cause I can never remember the key combination. But I refuse to let AI ruin a perfectly good piece of punctuation for me
You do you. I do think it’s relatively rare (or at least not very widely noticed) to most people, so it’s going to be something of a struggle for the foreseeable future. Best of luck.
Dang, I was thinking “ellipsis” but then was unsure of myself and too lazy to search, so thank you! Honestly, idk anyone IRL who uses em-dahes casually, I just like using 'em (eyyy, a little em joke)
I’ve been a fan of em-dashes for a long time, mainly to try and make sentences more coherent without overusing commas, semicolons, and whatever the “…” is called. It’s just another piece of the grammatical jigsaw that allows written language to kinda have a voice. But I also don’t use an em-dash like 5 times in a paragraph
I just gotta long-press the dash symbol on my phone to use it — like so. Now on a physical keyboard, I gotta really want to use it cause I can never remember the key combination. But I refuse to let AI ruin a perfectly good piece of punctuation for me
It’s obviously option-dash for en dashes and option-shift-dash for em dashes on MacOS keyboards.
You don’t even need to learn that, you just think what the most logical way to type them would be, try it once, are correct, and know how to do it.
I don’t have MacOS, but it’s nice they make that intuitive
Overuse commas ? You think they are going to run out. If you are overusing commas try some new sentences.
I’m traumatized by elementary school teachers telling me my sentences were too “choppy”. But verbose quickly becomes run-on… I still have to heal
You do you. I do think it’s relatively rare (or at least not very widely noticed) to most people, so it’s going to be something of a struggle for the foreseeable future. Best of luck.
Also, “…” is an ellipsis, fyi.
Dang, I was thinking “ellipsis” but then was unsure of myself and too lazy to search, so thank you! Honestly, idk anyone IRL who uses em-dahes casually, I just like using 'em (eyyy, a little em joke)