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In a similar vein, ending with an ellipsis (…), while used by many to indicate thought, consideration, or other sort of pause in speech often comes across to yo
by jwells89 3y ago
In a similar vein, ending with an ellipsis (…), while used by many to indicate thought, consideration, or other sort of pause in speech often comes across to younger readers as a sort of passive aggressiveness or shortness of patience.
- Gigachad 3y agoSurely it’s always meant that. It’s just a long pause. I’d think something like “are you serious…” would be pretty universally understood.
- astrange 3y agoIt's interpreted as old person, because there's a class of boomer that ends all their sentences with … and then puts them in the middle of half of them too.
- jareklupinski 3y agoand just when you think you've solved the ellipses and fullstop, someone comes along and hits you with the: ..
- hoosieree 3y agoAerodynamic semicolon.