My right to use the emdash

@luciano wrote: writers use emdashes ai learns how to write from writers people who don’t write think emdashes signify ai writing how are we supposed to help these people? So, here are the stats of my blog. 60% of my posts had at least one emdash 1 in 2015. You either accept I had invented a capable LLM in 2015, or that using emdash is a normal thing people who write often do. year posts posts with em dashes share 2003 18 0 0.0% 2004 109 0 0.0% 2005 256 0 0.0% 2006 371 1 0.3% 2007 543 1 0.2% 2008 541 3 0.6% 2009 150 1 0.7% 2010 181 0 0.0% 2011 94 1 1.1% 2012 50 3 6.0% 2013 85 14 16.5% 2014 44 13 29.5% 2015 33 20 60.6% 2016 18 8 44.4% 2017 6 1 16.7% 2018 23 1 4.3% 2019 4 0 0.0% 2020 20 0 0.0% 2021 16 2 12.5% 2022 6 0 0.0% 2023 7 2 28.6% 2024 15 1 6.7% 2025 64 13 20.3% 2026 64 20 31.2% all 2718 105 3.9% In the early days, I often used a simple dash (“-“), instead of a proper — (“—”) because content management systems would get confused by the html entity representation. The stats…