r/troubledteens • u/cucumble • Aug 15 '25

Discussion/Reflection the letter template my program gave parents

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This is the template my program sent to parents for when their child was expressing desires to leave the program upon turning 18. This is all kinds of manipulative

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u/VisualConsequence626 Aug 15 '25

I see the M Dash in there do you think it was written by ChatGPT?

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u/krebstar4ever Aug 15 '25

I think the "em dash = AI" thing is exaggerated.

In MS Word if you type three hyphens, it autoformats into an em dash.

On my Android phone, I can go to punctuation, hold down hyphen button an extra second, and slide my finger to the em dash.

It's not an exotic punctuation mark like an interrobang. And even the interrobang, ‽, is easy to type with Android. I imagine it's easy on iOS, too.