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icedchaitoday at 1:22 PM3 repliesview on HN

Troglodyte here... I never use em dashes, never use semicolons, overuse ellipses and commas.


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cwmooretoday at 1:31 PM

You have ellipses… on my iOS, “…” have become one triple-dot

CuriouslyCtoday at 1:40 PM

Ellipses are garbage outside of dialog, and even there readers dislike seeing them frequently.

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fellowniusmonktoday at 3:20 PM

I love ellipses, it really captures that even when writing Rust documentation my mood is existential and disaffected... like a new grad in the pool, slowly burning under the noon sun on an inflatable lounger, too dazed and decadent to tap even a finger for their next paloma.

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