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[–] GabrielBell12fi 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So now one else is going to comment on the fact the text just stops halfway through a wo

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's basically like an ellipsis. The punchline has been delivered, that this "game" is just imprisonment, but to actually describe imprisonment, you'd need a lot more sentences.

It is interesting, that it doesn't use "...".
I guess, you'd write "..." when a thought is somewhat complete, whereas here, it's specifically a run-on sentence that's being cut off.

[–] DPRK_Official 22 points 7 months ago

The punchline goes a bit further than just imprisonment, see the Stanford Prison Experiment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I think this is called aposiopesis