The Em Dash Tell

Something changed in the last couple of months if not years now. Open Slack, open a Notion page, scroll LinkedIn for thirty seconds, and there it is: a long dash sitting in the middle of a sentence, doing a job a comma or a period used to do just fine. It shows up so often now that it isn’t really a stylistic choice anymore, it’s a tell. A character almost nobody typed The mark is the em dash.…