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I use the em dash constantly, and have done for years, so finding out it's a big "this was written by AI" indicator makes me sad — I'm not an AI user, I just like the way it looks!
If it's any consolation, it's heavily biased in the training data for a reason, you're not alone
You can do the things all GenX people learned on typing class, the double hyphen.
Also, we double space after periods. That's a hard but of muscle memory to get out of my head.
Source: Me. A in typing. 1984.
The double space automatically ages you. Ageism….
Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it's the most appealing way to do so.