If you’ve ever found yourself confused about the difference between a dash and a hyphen, and when to use a hyphen, you’re far from alone. When you handwrite them, they probably look exactly the same.
AI overuses the punctuation mark because of how it's trained and how it predicts text, researcher Mustafa Ocal explains.
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This Is When to Use a Hyphen vs. Dash
When you’re writing by hand, a hyphen and a dash can look pretty similar, although the meanings differ. You might throw in a hyphen to link two well-known words or add a dash—for impact, of course.
Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can’t be beat.
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Em dashes were once a ChatGPT giveaway — but not anymore, so here’s your permission to use them
ChatGPT loves the em dash ( — ) the way a Labrador loves a tennis ball — enthusiastically, indiscriminately, and with absolutely no sense of when to let it go. That’s why seeing an em dash used in ...
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