jimbocoin on Nostr: There are a couple of different ways to join clauses in written speech, depending on ...
There are a couple of different ways to join clauses in written speech, depending on one’s intent and grammatical necessity. This sentence and the previous, for example, use commas.
One can clarify a point with parenthesis (like this) or adjoin a clause with an emdash—like this. Sometimes emdashes are used—in pairs—where commas would have sufficed.
It is certainly the case that emdashes are rarer to encounter in conversational writing. It hadn’t occurred to me that they might signal AI generated content.
Personally, I would estimate that I use emdashes about as frequently as parentheses or colons (“:”). But semicolons (“;”) I almost never use.
One can clarify a point with parenthesis (like this) or adjoin a clause with an emdash—like this. Sometimes emdashes are used—in pairs—where commas would have sufficed.
It is certainly the case that emdashes are rarer to encounter in conversational writing. It hadn’t occurred to me that they might signal AI generated content.
Personally, I would estimate that I use emdashes about as frequently as parentheses or colons (“:”). But semicolons (“;”) I almost never use.