Professor Tom Crick on Mythryl: “An important holiday message: who will speak for the em dash? Why AI…”

An important holiday message: who will speak for the em dash? Why AI detectors and human readers punish exactly opposite things, and the morning I hand-corrected every fi ligature in my dissertation in black pen: proftomcrick.com/2026/08/10/w...

proftomcrick.comWho will speak for the em dash?By now everyone has met the heuristic: if a piece of writing contains an em dash, a machine wrote it. It has a more precise origin than you might expect. Recruiters and LinkedIn posters were circli…

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