Hacker News with Generative AI: Punctuation

Amdash – Human only punctuation mark (theamdash.com)
For generations before generative text, writers have used the em dash to hop between thoughts, emotions, and ideas. Dickens shaped his morality tales with it, Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness flowed through it, Kerouac let it drive his jazz-like prose. Today, Sally Rooney threads it through her quiet truths of the heart.
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests (theguardian.com)
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
The American Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation Makes No Sense (2021) (erichgrunewald.com)
There are different ways of combining quotation and punctuation marks. In the American style, you almost always put periods and commas inside the quotation marks:
In the Matter of the Commas (theamericanscholar.org)
For the true literary stylist, this seemingly humble punctuation mark is a matter of precision, logic, individuality, and music
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) (merriam-webster.com)
Be dashing—and do it well
How to use an en-dash and em-dash correctly? (BrE) (lighthouseproofreading.co.uk)
There are hyphens. Then there are dashes. There’s the en dash. Then there’s the em dash.
Interrobang (wikipedia.org)
The curious case of the missing period (tjaart.substack.com)
'Proper punctuation' to return after apostrophe ban (bbc.co.uk)