Oh, shit. I do this all the time…
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LeonenTheDK@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
pahlimur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Ahrotahntee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
el_psd@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
that’s not a boomer thing…
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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’.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
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.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You never know when you need to use them…
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 month ago
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🤦♂️
bnaur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Around here the same kind of demographic often likes to replace the ellipsis with “,”. It’s both mind boggling and fascinating and raises so many questions that I’m not really mentally prepared nor qualified to ponder.
gamer@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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
Gerudo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, same here as a younger milenial… Not as often as that post, but pretty often 😅
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Younger millennial, same…
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 month ago
You have them in comics a lot, I wonder if…