firecat: damiel from wings of desire tasting blood on his fingers. text "i has a flavor!" (Default)
[personal profile] firecat
My fave is the semicolon; however, I refuse to cede em-dashes or any other punctuation marks to ChatGPT.

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen? How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is. (It is very likely the em dash.) — https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/

Date: 14 Jun 2025 12:33 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: otherwords (otherwords)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
I'm fond of em dashes, too.

Date: 14 Jun 2025 01:33 pm (UTC)
sabotabby: (books!)
From: [personal profile] sabotabby
out of my COLD DEAD HANDS

Date: 14 Jun 2025 07:42 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Bah! Esoteric choices and expanded use of punctuation and vocabulary are hallmarks of things that endure and haunt the human experience and memory. Cede no ground to the plagiarism machines at all.

Date: 15 Jun 2025 05:22 am (UTC)
starwatcher: Western windmill, clouds in background, trees around base. (Default)
From: [personal profile] starwatcher
I'm very fond of semicolons, too, but I wouldn't want to write with using an occasional m-dash. Punctuation was devised to give flavor to cold words on a page. I wouldn't give up any punctuation mark -- not even parentheses, which are my least favorite. I'm flummoxed that a certain section of the hive-mind thinks using an m-dash is a sign of AI, and therefore "unhuman." It's ridiculous what people will glom onto.

Date: 15 Jun 2025 07:03 am (UTC)
greghousesgf: (Boingboing)
From: [personal profile] greghousesgf
they use way too many hyphens in the New Yorker. Ice cream, teenager and red and yellow are not supposed to have hyphens!

Date: 16 Jun 2025 02:52 pm (UTC)
minoanmiss: Modern art of Minoan woman fllipping over a bull (Bull-Dancer)
From: [personal profile] minoanmiss
Oh what the FUCK now.

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