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


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.

//! This is mission critical, don't remove...


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


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


I agree they are inappropriate to use in formal writing. For stuff like blogs and chatting online though, they're fine.

As a reader, I dislike seeing em dashes almost everywhere.




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