AI overuses the punctuation mark because of how it's trained and how it predicts text, researcher Mustafa Ocal explains.

When you’re writing by hand, a hyphen and a dash can look pretty similar, although the meanings differ. You might throw in a hyphen to link two well-known words or add a dash—for impact, of course.

If you’ve ever found yourself confused about the difference between a dash and a hyphen, and when to use a hyphen, you’re far from alone. When you handwrite them, they probably look exactly the same.

Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can’t be beat.

I have been reading posts about em dashes lately. Some criticize their use, while others defend them, especially when they appear in content assumed to be artificial intelligence (AI)-generated. Maybe ...