Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can’t be beat.

The dreaded em-dash is one of the biggest giveaways of AI-generated writing. Chatbots love to use it for some reason, potentially giving themselves away. But ChatGPT seems to be offering a workaround ...

If you’re fed up with ChatGPT sprinkling em-dashes through every reply, there’s finally a tidy fix. With OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 update, the model is much better at following explicit formatting instructions ...

Hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes are frequently tested punctuation marks in government exam descriptive writing papers. Hyphens connect words, en dashes show ranges or relationships, and em dashes ...

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