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.

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.

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 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🤦‍♂️

The amount of older widowed men being scammed now is insane.

This...a lot.

SOURCE: I am a relatively wealthy Gen-X man.

I moved to Jackson Hole so it's not an issue now, but when I lived in Downtown Austin it was a problem.

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Is that the rule? I always thought it was half the higher age plus seven to get the minimum.

So 18 -> 22, 31-> 48

He’s a recently widowed, retired dermatologist, gym rat.