This is the first time I’m reading this sort of thing and I wouldn’t be too sure of it because I’m a millennial who intermittently uses ellipses, haha.
Kind of. There is one punctuation tell that you can typically use to tell if someone is older, and thats if they use ellipsis to separate thoughts rather than line breaks in informal settings.
Back in the day when you were writing on paper, space was a limited resource, so people that are more used to that will separate ideas with a ‘…’ rather than starting a new paragraph because you can fit more text into a smaller footprint.
Come the turn of the millennium, digital writing became the norm and people that grew up surrounded by computers tend to use line breaks instead because space is not limited in the same way anymore.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 week ago
glimse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think people use an ellipsis as a pseudo-line break… They use it for pacing. It’s just a pause within the same thought most of the time.