Em Dashes: A Class Divide in Writing Style

Em dashes? I can’t stand them.

It’s generational, though, and has nothing to do with AI, detecting AI, dining and DASHing, the EMancipation Proclamation, or even Canadian musician EMm Gryner. 

Maybe my aversion to em dashes stems from my social class, not my age.

Those fancy shmancy em dashes never had the carriage return it took to show up in MY neighbourhood! 


Fun Fact: I once had a summer job working on the DASH line at a Ford truck plant!

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