*Words, phrases and punctuation rarely used by the average college student – or anyone for that matter (em dash included) – are pervasive. *
Hey, fuck you too >:(
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This quote is particularly amusing because the author used en dashes where he should have used em dashes, while making a point about how no one uses em dashes.
Damn, I finally had to go learn what the em dash is, and by contrast what the en dash is. Your comment will haunt me to the end of my days.
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Doesn't MS word automatically change a regular dash to an em dash if there's a space on either side and you keep typing the sentence?
Wonder how many false positives that's caused.
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Obviously, the inclusion of Marxism is a decent test, but I have taken samples of things I have written years ago and submitted them to see what it would say about my writing.
It says a high probability of my writing was done by AI, because I do use emdashes, oxford commas, and other such punctuation.
We can't trust anything checking to see if something was written by AI, any more than we can trust something written by AI.
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You pay to go to college. Then essentially do the equivalent of lighting that money on fire by not engaging with the product/services you just purchased.
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Okay fine and all, but are we not going to talk about the cat?