Hahaha – danke!! Ewig habe ich leidenschaftlich versucht, anderen beizubringen, sie korrekt zu setzen, bis andere begannen, mich zu bitten, sie aus Texten zu entfernen, da sie KI-verdächtig seien. Die KI hat mittlerweile reagiert und setzt nun trotzige Halbgevierte. Ha! Gewonnen.
Finally someone says what I have been thinking so much about! Already love them and use them in my writing — there’s literally no better dramatic pause to take the place of the quiet parentheses — and I refuse to stop! Even if someone thinks I’ve used AI haha
Semicolon was invented by computer scientists to mark the end of the statement in ALGOL-58 specifically, and then used for the same purpose in C and other derivative programming languages. Don't believe wild claims of deranged typographers ━ Aldus Manutius could not invent semicolon because he was not a computer scientist, he invented a fancy comma which has the same exact shape as semicolon for historical reasons.
And my em-dash is longer and thicker than yours ━ because it's a box-drawing character.
Nice AI-generated post
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(I am embarrassed by all my thoughts) but I am pushing past it.
Hahaha – danke!! Ewig habe ich leidenschaftlich versucht, anderen beizubringen, sie korrekt zu setzen, bis andere begannen, mich zu bitten, sie aus Texten zu entfernen, da sie KI-verdächtig seien. Die KI hat mittlerweile reagiert und setzt nun trotzige Halbgevierte. Ha! Gewonnen.
what a banger of a post (and I also feel assaulted, thx)
Ellipses are the Eeyore of punctuation.
Finally someone says what I have been thinking so much about! Already love them and use them in my writing — there’s literally no better dramatic pause to take the place of the quiet parentheses — and I refuse to stop! Even if someone thinks I’ve used AI haha
A fellow woman of culture!
Lynne Truss would be proud!
Semicolon was invented by computer scientists to mark the end of the statement in ALGOL-58 specifically, and then used for the same purpose in C and other derivative programming languages. Don't believe wild claims of deranged typographers ━ Aldus Manutius could not invent semicolon because he was not a computer scientist, he invented a fancy comma which has the same exact shape as semicolon for historical reasons.
And my em-dash is longer and thicker than yours ━ because it's a box-drawing character.
I don't like emdashes because I don't know how to use them. So I tell Claude to delete them haha
I'm astonished and disappointed that there's not one mention of Emily Dickinson in this post
Yep.