EM Dash (SundayX)

Coffee? ☕☕ 

This SundayX I have no story to tell.

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Just adding my two cents to the em/en dash discussion—

Across platforms (not just on X) I see people stating as if by expert opinion that humans don't use dashes. 

I find it funny, really, because the em/en dashes have been in use by US long before Chats were available to US. 

Here's the brief history of the em dash:

The em dash has been around since the 15th-century printing revolution, emerging as a versatile punctuation mark to replace other marks, gaining prominence in the 18th and 19th centuries through writers like Emily Dickinson and Laurence Sterne, who used it for dramatic pauses or shifts in thought and remains a staple in modern typography for emphasis and separation.

I use them in my writing quite frequently and have for quite some time. 

AI is a valuable collaborative partner for me with synthographic image generation for the content I write. 

Leaving this reminder—

There's no gate to keep here because there is no gate. 

Use them em/en dashes freely. 

Write how you write and don't worry about the rest. 

Unfortunately there will always be those among us looking over their self important glasses assuming the worst—

Often incorrectly at that. 

This nonsense has purely been an attempt to gatekeep creativity and who you collaborate with, in my humble opinion. 

✨Write on beautiful people.✨

(Including screenshots of my chat with Grok. I was trying to find out where this discussion originated. Gemini said from a subreddit. Who knows. Who cares? I care about a lot but not this anymore. There's so much more going on in our world than being petty over who is using dashes and what it means if they do.)

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