I'm a -- user who later find and replaces them all to the em dash because I know how to do it on Mac but cannot figure out how to em dash on my Chromebook. This means nothing - ThreadSky

aimeecozza.com • 19 days ago

I'm a -- user who later find and replaces them all to the em dash because I know how to do it on Mac but cannot figure out how to em dash on my Chromebook. This means nothing

Reposted from Parker Molloy

Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.

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backwardsknight.com•19 days ago

On Windows, it's alt-0251 on the keypad. 🙃🙃

aimeecozza.com•19 days ago

Ffs

On mac it's just option dash.

abistevensart.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yeah that is a weird take. For starters some quite famous poets use a lot of em dash. 😂

anthonybecker.bsky.social•19 days ago

Turns out they were all AI boosters all along 😔

abistevensart.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yep Emily Dickinson was an early adopter 😂

christbot.bsky.social•19 days ago

Time travel

aimeecozza.com•19 days ago

Apparently em dash on chromebook is shift-control-u then you have to type 2014 then press spacebar which no fucking person is doing.

hadesselch.bsky.social•19 days ago

that's fucking asinine, wtf

hadesselch.bsky.social•19 days ago

wait that's a fucking ASCII code, why isn't that hard-coded???? does a chromebook not having anything similar to a mac's text replacements??

aimeecozza.com•19 days ago

I guess not. I agree it's super lame

toothandbranch.bsky.social•18 days ago

They'll tear my em dash from my cold dead human hands 😭

micahseacole.bsky.social•19 days ago

how the fuck else would you insert a thing in a sentence.

() looks like shit
[] is the wrong vibe
Making a new sentence doesn't insert something

Dashes are literally the only option?

konsectatrix.bsky.social•19 days ago

I switched from Mac to Windows something like 15 yrs ago and I still do it like that. And yup, exactly. The em dashes flow unabated

starlingdust.bsky.social•19 days ago

i use em dashes SO often it's not even funny. also semi colons. i've been told multiple times these are a sign of AI. no sorry i just like to write the longest sentences in the world with lots of asides

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