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Why do you write all your periods "." in this post (but not in others, per your comment history) as ".-"?
by JadeNB 2y ago
Why do you write all your periods "." in this post (but not in others, per your comment history) as ".-"?
- Bluestein 2y agoHate to bother you with a reply on this, but, since you mention ... I beg to differ, I actually checked.- I'd hate it if I had been less than consistent :) PS. At least from about 2021 on ...
- JadeNB 2y agoWhat I found was a bunch of occurrences '...' without a hyphen, which I assumed indicated the general trend, but on further searching I see that it is as you say. Nonetheless, if I may still ask, why?
- Bluestein 2y ago(I am in the end unsure about your question, but will try to answer it, if, by asking, you mean my general use of ".-"? I nonetheless appreciate your curiosity).-
- JadeNB 2y ago> … if, by asking, you mean my general use of ".-"? Yup, that's what I mean.
- Bluestein 2y agoIt is something of a mark of style - which, since you kindly ask - I inherited from my father, and I use as a sort of homage.- PS. It has also, countless times, saved me when I "retroactively" needed to claim authorship of something I had writen, by pointing it out. Most people either don't notice or do and don't say ...