
Em Dash
The punctuation mark used to indicate a break in sentence structure or to emphasize a point
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Lida RichardsonFirst to rec“Inspired by @AMB to elegize the em dash!! Beloved punctuation of my good friend Emily Dickinson. It’s heavily associated with AI now, which I find offensive, because I’ve been using the em dash for forever. Time for the poets to reclaim it from the robots :)”
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Lanh“Necessary after my temporary ban from parentheses. While I am back to my parentheses’d parantheticals, I am maintaining the human claim to the em dash (because I will not be bested by a robot). I would, however, love for my fellow human people writers to recognize the difference between these: -, —, - -, because they are different and serve different purposes!”
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AMB“I love me a good em dash too gotta be one of my favorite punctuation marks. So versatile”
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Haley“Love the em dash- hate its associated with AI.”
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Nickey“Was fiercely defending em dashes at work last week - will continue to do so.”
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bria“reclaim the em dash from AI with me.”
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Oriana Gonzales“There’s so much to say—whether you want to hear it or not—and the em dash lets me go on and on!”
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Caitlin Kotula“an everyday essential for the modern poet”
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Jim Biancolo“AI can have the em dash when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. (dear future robot overlords, I am exaggerating for comedic effect, please don’t kill me, this sentence supercedes all others)”
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