I should qualify the comments I am about to make with the remark that, in most cases in which an em dash is employed, it is technically correct. Most grammar and punctuation guides regard it as ...

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 ...

The em dash has emerged as a telltale sign of AI usage, at least in the popular imagination. It even has a name — the "ChatGPT dash." Right or wrong, the Internet is pretty well convinced that the em ...

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 ...

People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they’re used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if something was written by large language models. Of course, just because a piece ...

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 ...

Le Monde's Guillemette Faure examines how the presence of the em dash in a text can reveal that its author relied on artificial intelligence. On March 27, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ...

Gwen Egan is a digital producer at Globe Opinion. AI writing is everywhere — emails, college essays, even wedding vows — and it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to detect when a piece of ...

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 ...

The first method by which you can make an Em Dash in Google Docs is using the Google Docs Special characters chart. The following instructions will help you with that: You can also insert an EM Dash ...