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Why AI Flagged Your Em Dash
Most of us learned in school that punctuation is a fixed system handed down by grammarians. That story is almost entirely wrong. This episode traces punctuation's real history — from the breathing marks of ancient Greek orators to the Irish monks who invented the space bar, from Aldus Manutius's Venetian printing press to the lost marks like the percontation point and irony mark. Then we land on a very modern problem: why AI text detectors have made the em dash suspicious, and what that means for writers who've used it for years. Episode 2736 — myweirdprompts.com/n/2736 (permanent short link…
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