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@MitchWagner i am talking about what ‘we’ - the great unwashed see. I have always read a lot of words, sentences and paragraphs written by journalists - and if that profession uses the em dash - all good - I am no grammarian - witness my blog.

My point is that the percentage increase in the number of emdashes i see across all that I read - means something is going on - we didn’t suddenly have a ten fold increase in journaists/properly qualified writers - but we definitely have a ten fold increase in em dash usage (and of course ten fold is an absolute fact - that I know - because I feel it is right.)

@MitchWagner I think em dash defenderers miss the point … until AI you barely saw an em dash .. much less knew what one was or even why it was used .. unless you read Emily , Virginia et al .. and sorry .. people generally do not. Haven’t even.

The population didn’t decide in the space of a year to discover and start using them … there’s something else going on. What? I cannot answer. I just have ideas.

@settee first rule of Thanksgiving .. for eternity … ‘we should have started earlier’.

@bradenslen for them - the business it made total sense - their job is not to think about the good of America - or whatever country the business is based - but how to maximise shareholder value. Short term thinking? Probably. BUT. The market tends to judge a business on its last quarterly report - not its 5 - 10 - 25 year strategy,

And definitely not as short term thinking as outsourcing their call centers - those places where your CUSTOMERS primarily ENGAGE with you - the business - and rather than knowledgable - trained people there to solve your problem you are met with untrained - low cost - entry level people who if they can speak your language properly - not a given - might even have a thick accent that is hard to understand. Oh and said call centers are measured on how many calls you handle - which translates to how fast they can get said customer off the phone - not how many problems they solve,.