The month in writing · 2025

August 2025

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11 AUG 2025 · 6 min read

The Em Dash Was Mine First

Someone told me a paragraph I'd written 'read like ChatGPT' — because of the em dashes. I've been using them since I was a language student, long before the machines learned to. A short defence of good punctuation in a suspicious age.

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