Are you editing em-dashes out of your prose? Are you leaving “artisanal” typos in your articles?

No one wants their human writing mistaken for something produced by a machine.

But in our quest to avoid charges of writing “AI slop” we’re voluntarily surrendering some of the best tools in the English literary tradition.

The em-dash alone has a noble pedigree stretching from Laurence Sterne to Emily Dickinson to David Foster Wallace.

Full story out tomorrow.