@janeishly @tg @ska thanks, I was unaware that UK preferred en dash! But as far as I'm concerned, en and em dash are the same thing. Lazy hyphens are the way forward! (I don't write anything "professionally" - if I did, I'd probably be more willing to use en or em)

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Here's chatgpt's take on it! Hah!

https://chatgpt.com/share/69fb516a-33c4-83e8-8746-f40b0557375c

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I don't think a colon fits at all. Comma perhaps. My hyphen-as-em dash seems to be the appropriate way to handle it - at least that's what I'll continue doing.

An example (picked at random) of how my style differs (and not saying that you should change anything)

> This is the old machinery. Not pure. Not beautiful. Not easy to use.

This is the old machinery: not pure, beautiful or easy to use.

No idea which is more correct or effective. But yours just reeks of LLM, even if it isn't

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On a related note, I've found myself wanting to double down on my preferred writing style in response to LLM style taking over.

I tend to be very long-winded, and surely flirt with the line of run-on sentences/comma splices. But, to me, that's better than all of the 3-6 word "punchy" sentences that llms prefer. I'm allergic to it now

Likewise, Ive always used hyphens in place of em dashes. Cant be bothered to figure out how to insert one of those, and certainly won't going forward

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fwiw, I had the exact same sense while reading that fantastic post. Not to an excessive degree - I just thought there was a tasteful amount of it used to tidy up what had been hand written.

I'm glad no Ai was used, yet perhaps even more disappointed that some manners of writing are now forever tainted

I just subscribed to your rss feeds, via feedly which I've recently revived and am cleaning up. Sad that Current is apple-only. A PWA would be ideal, and aligned with your ethos...