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1. milanc+p6[view] [source] 2025-08-27 22:03:55
>>giulio+(OP)
"Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords."

OK, but please don't do what pg did a year or so ago and dismiss anyone who wrote "delve" as AI writing. I've been using "delve" in speech for 15+ years. It's just a question where and how one learns their English.

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2. diego_+m8[view] [source] 2025-08-27 22:16:18
>>milanc+p6
Same thing as with em dashes. Some of us have been using em dashes from before ChatGPT.
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3. guelo+Pe[view] [source] 2025-08-27 23:09:26
>>diego_+m8
I just went through your HN comment history going back to 2021 and didn't find a single —
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4. viccis+UB[view] [source] 2025-08-28 02:58:02
>>guelo+Pe
Haha yep. I never saw a single person use these in internet comments pre-2023. Plenty of hyphens to simulate it - like this - but not actual em dashes. No matter how many people swear up and down that they're so important.
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