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Even em dashes have been discouraged by some writers [0] before LLMs because they're easy to overuse.

[0]: https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/05/em-dashes-why-write...



God help me if Claude starts using inline parentheticals, I might just have to take a vow of (online) silence.


Glad to see I'm not the only one who (perhaps) overuses in-line parentheticals... sometimes to the point where I'd have parentheticals within parentheticals!




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