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Periods too. Periods and commas are being used incorrectly in place of semicolons, ellipses, and em dashes.

Netizens frequently misuse question marks in place of periods to indicate surprise?

And what even do they use even after interrogatories for? What even is that?

still beats people? who talk? like this?

I've seen people use them as a way to replace pauses in speech. I see it more with boomers / Gen-X.

example:

he isn't wrong... why do you think that ... it's a good thing