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in defense of the emdash

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Ryan Sickles
Jun 28, 2025
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there’s been so much talk of ai’s supposed infatuation with em dashes. a sure sign a bot wrote an article! but some of us enjoy em dashes, and we mustn’t relinquish them to the machine out of a neurotic fear of being mistaken for not human.

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