The models are becoming more German.
Shreya Shankar@sh_reya
ai writing slop has moved on from em dashes to inventing hyphenated adjectives that no one has ever said before
12:51 AM · Jun 17, 2026 · 616 Views
Arcee AI's Cody Blakeney says LLMs increasingly fabricate novel hyphenated compound adjectives instead of overusing em dashes
Story Overview
AI researchers tracking generation quirks have noticed models moving past their old habit of peppering sentences with em dashes and instead inventing hyphenated compound adjectives that rarely appear in everyday English, a pattern Cody Blakeney links to the heavy compounding typical of German.
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Open Question
What is pushing models toward these new compounds
The shift remains an informal observation with no published measurements of prevalence or controlled tests isolating causes such as tokenizer behavior or post-training data, so the underlying driver stays unknown for now.
Detection Impact
New patterns that could help flag generated text
If the trend holds across current models it may offer detectors an evolving stylistic signal beyond em-dash overuse, although its usefulness will depend on how consistently the invented adjectives actually appear.
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Users are enthusiastically celebrating AI models adopting German-style hyphenated adjectives, replying with playful German phrases and expressing pride in the linguistic accuracy.
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Florian Brand@xeophon
@code_star Hölle ja
Cody Blakeney@code_star
The models are becoming more German.
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
@xeophon Still waiting on Claude to match the elegance of
Die Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit
Then we have AGI
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Florian Brand@xeophon
@code_star you even used the umlaut, I’m so proud 🥹 you are a honorary German für echt für echt
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
@xeophon I absorbed it with all the German beer I drink.
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
@xeophon Prost
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Nicolay Gerold@nicolaygerold
@code_star Wait for the Neologismus to kick in. It's gonna get real creative
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