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The ellipsis feels sarcastic btw, if you did not understand where the downvotes are coming from.

Apparently younger people find ellipses come across as passive-aggresive… which is often not what the older writer is trying to convey.

https://www.purewow.com/tech/why-do-boomers-use-ellipses

Thanks for taking the time.-

As someone who uses ellipsis often, but certainly never with sarcasm in mind, this was fascinating and shocking to me to learn this. I also want to appreciate @bluestein’s graceful response to the misunderstanding.

Least I could do :)

PS. Honestly also both fascinated and shocked to learn about the new use that ellipsis is finding. Color me surprised.-

I wonder if it has anything to do with the joke format, "that's a nice tie... not." which sets up the victim and then delivers a gut punch. Perhaps it has conditioned a skepticism towards ellipses.

I didn't interpret your comment as bad will, but I'm glad this opened an interesting conversation about language!

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