I’ve been ridiculed, though also praised, for my relative overuse of … ellipsis, to indicate a pause in speech, or like, a hanging concept, to be later expanded on.
Many people these days apparently just do not know how … what I understand as basic grammar and syntax … how that works.
Of course, that may have something to do with many teachers just literally teaching books by reading aloud or assigning the actual cliff notes summary, instead of the actual book.
Average adult US literacy levels are approximately that of a 5th grader.
Most people are very nearly functionally illiterate now, roughly 15% are at or below a 2nd grade level, so they actually are functionally illiterate.
I used to use them all the time until it was beaten out of me by people talking shit. Now I use dashes sparingly for pauses, it seemed to be more acceptable.
I’ve been ridiculed, though also praised, for my relative overuse of … ellipsis, to indicate a pause in speech, or like, a hanging concept, to be later expanded on.
Many people these days apparently just do not know how … what I understand as basic grammar and syntax … how that works.
Of course, that may have something to do with many teachers just literally teaching books by reading aloud or assigning the actual cliff notes summary, instead of the actual book.
Average adult US literacy levels are approximately that of a 5th grader.
Most people are very nearly functionally illiterate now, roughly 15% are at or below a 2nd grade level, so they actually are functionally illiterate.
I remember using them ALL the time when chatrooms on AOL were a thing. Nowadays I almost only use them to indicated omited works in a quote.
I used to use them all the time until it was beaten out of me by people talking shit. Now I use dashes sparingly for pauses, it seemed to be more acceptable.
Fuck those people.
Be you.
Conformity is the death of style, and apparently also critical thinking.
Laugh at how frivolous and petty are the things they ostracize people for.
Such people are contemptible.
Also: Fuck everyone who hates that one person that’s always using a thorn instead of th.