Sal’s

Em dashes are amazing

Saw this on HN this morning: Em dashes are fucking amazing.

Excerpt:

I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a magnifying glass for any signs of AI” crowd thinks. I don’t give a shit that AI figured out how to produce em dashes before these online troglodytes did. Typing em dashes is not an AGI-complete problem. It’s not that difficult to produce an organic, artisanal, hand-crafted em dash — on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen.

I fucking agree.

One of the HN commenters shared some other cool symbols we should all consider using

#em-dash #writing