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Given the relatively high median eloquence of posters on this site, perhaps it's the wrong place to ask but I've been dealing with a rather frustrating issue. I find that my natural writing style (which I've had since I started writing essays in grade school with the usual refinements that come with age) tends to be pretty easily mistaken for LLM-style writing. I don't really know what that says about me as a person. Regardless, I've cut out em-dashes and negative parallelisms despite having used them for years. Anyone else encounter this issue and has it changed your approach to writing at all?
I’ve almost entirely abandoned negative parallelisms, and I’ve become much more judicious in my use of the em-dash. If I’m writing for an audience who knows nothing about me (for example, reference letters, external emails, and job application cover letters), I avoid em-dashes entirely.
The Chad solution to this is to accept that there is only one dash and that it is also hyphen and the minus sign. Aka the ascii character 0x2D.
Nah, that's not the Chad solution — the Chad solution is to start overusing the em dash even if you've never used them before and have to ask AI how to find it on your phone keyboard. It doesn't just show that you don't care about being mistaken for an LLM — it shows that you revel in it! And the best part? You're not just using em dashes — you're weaponizing them. And honestly? That's the real Chad move.
You can pry my minus sign dash from my cold, dead hands.
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