The sacred nature of the em dash gets hammered into every American academic. I resisted an initiation into the em dash cult for years but getting accused of being French eventually got to me and I joined the em-dashers. Since then I’ve been indoctrinated into the cult and radicalized. I don’t care about any newfangled fads. You’ll have to pry my em dashes our of my cold dead hands. I don’t care what ChatGPT does. I was there first and peed in a circle to mark my territory.
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LOL, that latter phrase is clearly hyperbole — my hunch is that you mark territory by scattering papers about to indicate that this area belonga me ;-D
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Yes, it’s true, I didn’t actually pee in a circle. But I wanted to. 😆😆😆
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I’m an big fan of the em dash and use it a lot in my blog postings. I didn’t realize that there was a cult. Why haven’t I been invited to join?
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