But my point remains true: A hyphen is not an em dash. Nor is it an en dash. Each of these three punctuation marks has its own special job. Em dashes, often simply called dashes, are sentence ...

When to use an em dash instead of some other punctuation mark is largely up to you. It can take the place of a semicolon, colon, or comma if you’re trying to introduce a new clause with slightly ...

My wife, Cindy, a retired English teacher, alerted us to that hyphen, a piece of punctuation that was hiding in plain sight. Most of us didn’t know it was there, even though we claim to have ...

The weaponisation of a commonly used mark of punctuation, and how best to counter it  The minister of Punctuation, Propaganda, and Fake News was addressing his aides and assorted flunkies. There is ...

Ever had that moment when ChatGPT's writing style gives itself away? The AI assistant has a peculiar punctuation habit that ...

Suspicious that an awkward email or stilted college essay may have been written by artificial intelligence? Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists ...

The em dash (—) is a supremely useful (and fashionable) piece of punctuation used in writing and editing, often in place of a comma, colon, or parenthesis. While you might want to utilize it to ...

punctuation will vary based on the writing style requested. On the one hand, the received opinion that the long dash is a product of generative AI that basically didn’t exist in years past is a ...