A debate surrounds the em dash, dubbed the 'ChatGPT hyphen'. Gen Z and social media users link it to AI content. However, literary figures like Jane Austen used it too. Its presence in AI stems from ...

Controlling punctuation is a main concern for users who depend on ChatGPT for professional, academic, or publishing tasks.

In the video from The New Yorker’s YouTube channel, Comma Queen Mary Norris breaks down the rules for all three dashes. They hyphen is the shortest mark and is used for making compound words (like ...

If you’ve ever found yourself confused about the difference between a dash and a hyphen, and when to use a hyphen, you’re far from alone. When you handwrite them, they probably look exactly the same.

ChatGPT was using the em dash excessively even when users explicitly asked it to stop. Sam Altman recently posted about a new ...

If you’re tired of ChatGPT filling your responses with em-dashes, the long dash that has practically become the bot’s calling card, there’s now a simple way to stop it. With the rollout of OpenAI’s ...

The apparent problem is that AP refuses to set down “rules.” As the stylebook says, using hyphens “can be a matter of taste, judgment and style sense.” Judging by many of the Twitter reactions to the ...

I have some good news for you. English — the language you love and depend on — has not one, not two, but three punctuation marks in the form of horizontal lines. Control yourself. They are — from ...

Language evolution is happening right in plain sight. “Off-site” and “on-site” are in the process of becoming “offsite” and “onsite.” And they’re adding “noun” to their parts of speech as well. That’s ...