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New comment by Adlopa in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

Adlopa — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:30:12 +0000

The style in the UK – for professional writing, at least – has generally been ‘word en-dash word’. My understanding was that ‘wordem-dashword’ was a US style thing and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it used in a UK publication. (I suspect few non ‘writers’ know the difference between an en-dash and a hyphen and some publications also seem to be relaxed about it.)

So it was no surprise to me that ChatGPT used em dashes (I assume a US bias to its training data) and I immediately told it to stop using them (along with Title Case titles). (Source: professional writer for 30 years.)

https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-style-guide-d

New comment by Adlopa in "Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)"

Adlopa — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:05:38 +0000

There’s a whole film about ‘Rhubarb’, prompted in part, I think, by that premise.

https://youtu.be/EOiwJkMvIYI

New comment by Adlopa in "Outhorse Your Email"

Adlopa — Thu, 19 May 2022 10:22:50 +0000

Could be worse for the horses, I guess...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/16/iceland-...