• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I use them when connecting a thought in between another thought—for example, what I just did right now—and then returning back to the original thought. I use a semi-colon when connecting two related thoughts tougher; LLMs tend to only use one em-dash, so I’m hoping that by using two of them instead—and a semi-colon instead whenever an LLM would use an em-dash—there will be no confusion as to whether or not I’m human.

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      7 days ago

      I like to alternate between sets of em dashes and sets of parentheses to obscure the fact that I’m using too many “asides” in my writing.

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        7 days ago

        I do that too on top of everything else I said. It’s an ADHD thing. I write how I think, with lots of tangents.