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stop using ; and --

Posted by Anonymous 13 hours ago Follow

I was told in a dream that oxford commas; and long dashes --; are entirely unneccessary in writing and what you want to accomplish can simply be done with a , or a .

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[–] Anonymous abbe7d50 1 point

If you want to write good prose you should use them. Most of the time we don't even write prose though.

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[–] Hana 1 point

-- are useful to make people's names readable and simi semicolon ; is very useful in programming to tell the compiler the end of the line/statement

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[–] Anonymous fc85cb8e 1 point

-- is aryan because it's a human shibboleth albeit. ai literally cannot resist the temptation to turn it into an em dash, so you know whenever you see -- that the thing you're reading was written by a human

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[–] Anonymous 9bb3109d 1 point

I'm glad you told me this

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