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What's with the boomer ellipsis? It's so consistent among the older folks I see. I don't understand why every sentence needs to be trailing off.
Good for gramps though! Power to him.
The boomer ellipsis drives me nuts. It gives me a very ominous feeling, like something is being left unsaid that I'm supposed to extrapolate. The only time I use an ellipsis in text is when I want to indicate that the thought is incomplete.
Yeesh, this is boomer stuff? I'm an elder millennial and use them all the time. It's like a forced pause or an uhm, so reading something reads more like speech.
Yeah, same here as a younger milenial... Not as often as that post, but pretty often 😅
You have them in comics a lot, I wonder if...
Younger millennial, same...
You never know when you need to use them...
Oh, shit. I do this all the time...
that’s not a boomer thing…
My dad is genX and uses it the same way. I have explained it to him multiple times that it's like sighing at someone.
They got their old man sigh in text form
Around here, the same kind of demographic often replaces the ellipsis with ',,,'. It's both mind-boggling and fascinating, raising so many questions that I'm neither mentally prepared nor qualified to ponder.
I think that's just a common typo. The difference between '. ' and ', ' is hard to spot unless you have good eyesight, and they're close together on the keyboard
I find that I slip into the same habit sometimes -- specifically, when I'm typing something where perfect grammar will come off as overly formal, but I'm stressing a bit over what level of informality is appropriate. It taxes the frontal lobes, which means that my thoughts are disjointed in a way that ellipses just make sense with. I think it's so widespread among older people because when they were first introduced to instant messaging, they weren't sure how they would come off, and then it became a habit. But that's just me guessing.
I used to have a boss like that, he'd toss in an ellipsis at the most inappropriate locations.
It made all his emails appear sarcastic. Leave it to a guy who focused primarily on decorum instead of substance to send an email like
"Good job..."
and not know how that reads.
My mom does it all the time. I asked her about it once, and she said it's a habit while her thoughts catch up. Basically, a text version of 'umm'.
My dad does this so much and I asked him about it once. He said he thinks it makes everything sound very chill and low pressure. I think it makes everything sound passive aggressive, or like it's a loaded statement🤦♂️
Wondering that as well actually. Why don’t their sentences ever end?