Some say the em dash is a sign of AI writing. But experts push back, arguing it's more about writing skill than punctuation.

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From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their biggest grammar gripes ...

Gen Z, raised on texting and social media, have sharply turned away from traditional punctuation, which they feel "comes ...

From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their ...

The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ...

It’s not on as many bookshelves as it once was, so I refer you to page 9 of my well-worn third edition of Strunk and White’s ...

Also: I tested 10 AI content detectors - and these 5 correctly identified AI text every time While the em dash is a punctuation mark loved by many writers, such as myself, as seen in the sentence ...

Cocogun is leading the human fightback against AI-generated writing, with the introduction of a new punctuation mark: the am dash. Inspired by Descartes’ centuries’ old maxim “I think ...

The more it appears, the higher the chance of the passage being generated by ChatGPT but that’s just a thought among some podcasters and content creators on social media ...