Anonymous #2 6w

When trying to link words in a rapid succession like when a character is talking kinda fast.

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Anonymous #4 6w

Real

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Anonymous #2 6w

You can also use it to connect a sentence fragment to a sentence: “I was touched by her love—touched dearly for once.” Or you can use it to enclose an informative descriptor: “he wondered—stricken by the deepest terror—what would make a man do such terrible deeds.” Or related thoughts by taking the function of a semicolon: “what corruption filled his tummy—what horror clenched is buttocks?” It’s a pretty versatile punctuation mark, so people love it

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Anonymous #3 6w

I thought that was an en dash situation?

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Anonymous #2 6w

i talk very rapidly- sometimes i need to give more context mid sentence- and the em dash is very useful. BUT I CANT USE THEM ANYMORE BC OF AI

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Anonymous #6 6w

no em dashes are for almost all literary functions, en dashes are for number ranges mostly, a s-stutter should use a hyphen but full separate words connected should be em

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Anonymous #7 6w

Continue to use them!! There are growing lists of “AI indicators” and at this point if we continue to follow them, we won’t be able to write, or at least our voice will suffer for it. But also, those are en dashes you’ve just employed. Em dashes are the longer ones: “—“ as opposed to “-“

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Anonymous #5 6w

Bro I use those all the time 😭 for me it’s kinda like using a parenthesis to provide further context, description or like a side note

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