Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An em dash in a gold frame. Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK It’s rare that a punctuation mark ...

If you've used ChatGPT — or seen AI-generated text — you've likely spotted an em dash. The punctuation mark is not new, but it has been flung into the forefront of social media and everyday writing ...

On November 14, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted on social media, “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!

I can no longer use the em dash, despite the fact I’ve been using an em dash every day, all day, even on Sundays. I love the ...

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Nobody loves an em-dash more than I do — I put an em-dash on ...

Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash, in particular ...

I have been reading posts about em dashes lately. Some criticize their use, while others defend them, especially when they appear in content assumed to be artificial intelligence (AI)-generated. Maybe ...

I’ve been told that I use too many dashes. My high school AP Language and Composition teacher would often draw an X through each dash I used in my essays, suggesting that they detracted from the ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...