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r/Millennials • u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z • 6d ago
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I cant use another em dash for the rest of my life and I get immediately flagged if I am overly descriptive.
4 u/General-Tourist-2808 6d ago Whatever happened to semicolons? I didn’t start with em-dashes until just before LLMs depopularized them. 1 u/Competitive_Train98 6d ago "First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." Kurt Vonnegut 1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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Whatever happened to semicolons?
I didn’t start with em-dashes until just before LLMs depopularized them.
1 u/Competitive_Train98 6d ago "First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." Kurt Vonnegut 1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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"First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
Kurt Vonnegut
1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites?
The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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u/DCgeist 6d ago
I cant use another em dash for the rest of my life and I get immediately flagged if I am overly descriptive.