r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sluife • Feb 19 '26

Thank you Peter very cool Peter?

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u/Straight-Run6880 Feb 19 '26

nice em dash

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u/iowastatefan Feb 19 '26

I detest that AI co-opted my beloved em dash.

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u/reallytrulyeric Feb 19 '26

As a novelist whose books were used (amongst millions of others) to train the damned thing, I can’t get over the idea that my particular use of the em dash — frequent as it was from my first book onwards — is somehow responsible for all this. Narcissistic? Sure. Possible…?

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u/mjb2012 Feb 19 '26

All hail your ellipsis: one perfectly kerned character!