#thegloryhole

i can assure you that my high-school english teacher would have failed me if i didn’t use an oxford comma. even in elementary school, i was always taught to use the oxford comma. if it wasn’t included before the word “and,” i would get points taken off. i thought everyone learned this growing up, but apparently not since some of you are bold enough to accuse people of using ai sources just because they use it.

i love the em dash. i don’t give a fuck, i will NEVER quit using it. yes, it has become one of the main indicators to find out whether a person has used chat gpt or not, BUT are we not forgetting that most ai sites pull from work in which actual people have written. just because i choose to use the em dash where i see fit in MY writing doesn’t mean that i use chat gpt. as i have written on my page, i do not condone the use of ai. therefore i use an em dash because i genuinely just love it. you’ll rarely ever see me use “…” in my work, but you will see me use “—“ just because i think it’s more suited and professional towards my writing style.

also because i’ve seen multiple people do this to the point where i’ve started to do it, i was always taught in school that starting a sentence with but or and was incorrect. even in college, my professors advise the class not to do so. i was also taught to always use a comma before but in a sentence no matter the context. same thing goes for using spaces after a comma, em dash, or ellipses.