OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[847badgerfan]

Charmin clean.

[MikeDeTiger]

For @jgvol , who gets it.  Some pics the wife snapped off over the years of/with Dr. Hank.  Probably should go in the Happy thread, but I like to think this makes CD's wife and Badger grumpy 

[jgvol]

I wish Dr. Hank was hanging out in my local grocery store.  I'd probably go with my wife more often. 

[847badgerfan]

Looks like a very nice dog full of dander.

[betarhoalphadelta]

TIL that apparently AI is well known for using the em dash, and that a lot of use of the em dash is a way to identify AI-generated work. 

Uhh... I use the em dash. I was taught to do it in writing classes where the instructors said that anything within parentheses is skipped by a reader, so you put something inside the em dash instead. 

It seems that spelling and grammar are in such sort supply in our society that people assume that anything well-written isn't being done by a human. 

So now, my attention to spelling and grammar will increasingly make people think that my own human-written content comes from generative AI. 

[SFBadger96]

I use em dashes all the time. Don't care what AI thinks.

[MikeDeTiger]

TIL what TIL means.  

[MrNubbz]

Would you allow an unwashed hairy naked man with a dirty asshole to sit on your couch?

Really? Would you?

Well they seem post here alot so why not?

[Gigem]

What’s the difference between an em dash and a regular dash?  

[FearlessF]

Today’s department seminar was presented by Ph.D. student Ally Pachunka, sharing her research results about “Student Perspectives on

Companion Animal Education in Collegiate Animal Science Programs.”

[utee94]

I like to use them thar em dashes, um huh.

[bayareabadger]

TIL that apparently AI is well known for using the em dash, and that a lot of use of the em dash is a way to identify AI-generated work.

Uhh... I use the em dash. I was taught to do it in writing classes where the instructors said that anything within parentheses is skipped by a reader, so you put something inside the em dash instead.

It seems that spelling and grammar are in such sort supply in our society that people assume that anything well-written isn't being done by a human.

So now, my attention to spelling and grammar will increasingly make people think that my own human-written content comes from generative AI.

I think some people got over reliant on them, subbing them in for a ton of other punctuation. 

But you were doing it before it was the hot new thing to change the world

[iahawk15]

My AI content rules allow for a maximum of two em dashes for the article and never in a heading. Without that rule, I am often getting 8-12 of them in my draft. The em dash is a fine tool, but that is excessive.

Also, I disallow any use of the horizontal rule. I'll add them in manually, if needed. ChatGPT is the greatest offender for this one, often adding a <hr> before every <h2>.

[SFBadger96]

Dash: -
Em Dash: -- (there's probably a way to connect it on this platform, but imagine those are connected; basically, it's a longer dash).

Ordinarily a dash is used to separate a number or a letter, or something else, as in: 1 - Ohio State

An em dash is used to set off a clause within a sentence, and most style guides call for no spaces between it and the words around it, e.g.,: I loved the beauty--not the drugs and homeless people--in San Francisco.

The idea of a clause set off with em dashes is that it has more emphasis than a parenthetical or a clause separated with commas.