I should qualify the comments I am about to make with the remark that, in most cases in which an em dash is employed, it is technically correct. Most grammar and punctuation guides regard it as ...

Punctuation can be like spices in food. They flavor and enhance the dish, but too much can overwhelm the blend and ruin the meal. The em dash has always been like sumac: a great, complex flavor in its ...

There is a punctuation mark that Emily Dickinson used obsessively, that Mary Shelley deployed with abandon, that David Foster Wallace built an entire prose architecture around, and that James Baldwin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An em dash in a gold frame. Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK It’s rare that a punctuation mark ...

People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they’re used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if something was written by large language models. Of course, just because a piece ...

COLUMN. Le Monde's Guillemette Faure examines how the presence of the em dash in a text can reveal that its author relied on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The real human authors of real books mostly didn't envision the foibles of AI chatbots. (Abhishek Chinnappa / Getty Images) Now ...

Identity has never been an issue for Ad Nut. With a day split between sorting, hoarding, and consuming nuts, berries and other woodland delicacies, and escaping the attention of murderous beasts, Ad ...