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I LOVE interrobangs. Least of all because their name is delightful to say. I have a shortcut set up for interrobangs on my phone so when I type ?! it autocorrects to ‽ So much joy!!

I'm too afraid I would use them improperly and not motivated enough to look up their proper use. 🤦‍♂️

Yes! This 👆🏼❗️ Recently in a discussion with colleagues about how - when marking - we can spot AI in undergrad essays, multiple people sited looking out for the em dash, and I thought, “but I use those all the time‽‽”

As an “space en-dash space” hard-liner, I agree that all em-dashers are AI-based humanoids. 😜

Lol 😂 this is the first I’ve heard of this, good lord

However, please kindly correct me if I'm wrong. Because this may very well help me improve my writing. I already know I am ass at it. But it never hurts to improve little by little.

To be fair, I've tripped up so many times trying to parse text including em dashes and "smart" quotation marks that I avoid them out of habit. But, if you don't have to write code to manipulate the text written, em dashes can and should be used when appropriate. #RegexFlashbacks

Some sort of “I’ll never bother to learn how to do this trivial thing and I mistrust anyone who does” energy

Probably the same losers who use a semicolon like a colon.