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I was hoping to see a graph of em-dash usage over time across all comments - would be interesting to see the spike post LLM


Indeed, that is interesting, the author could probably spit out that answer in seconds. As - for the most part, anyway - a traditionalist and ASCII7 adherent I find it funny to think about how this is probably also a good indicator of the age of the writer.


When I saw your name on the leaderboard, I was shocked -- I say shocked -- and I hoped that all of the messages you posted with em dashes were just quoting other people using them, and ripping them a new *.


Lol, I wonder how many people you made to check. How are the kittens?




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