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		citizenkeen 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords tur... But do you call that latter thing you do “an em-dash”? Do you tell a peer “You should put an em-dash here” when what you mean is a “space en-dash space”?

Nullabillity 8 months ago [–]

I don't call it anything, because I'm not in the business of telling people how to write. (Besides asking them not to use SlopGPT, of course.)

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