Double-Hyphen Dash

The em dash wearing a false moustache. Once "em dash means AI" became common knowledge, the character started getting swapped for a double hyphen: sometimes because the text passed through a markdown conversion, sometimes because someone ran a find-and-replace to look more human, sometimes because the model was steered off the character while keeping the habit. Either way the compulsive mid-sentence pivot survives the substitution, which is what actually gives it away. Writers who reach for double hyphens honestly do so once or twice out of typographic laziness, rarely fifteen times in one post. Flagged at five or more per thousand words.

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