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conulyI know this, because she came home and told me that literally everyone in her school already knew about it, and she felt so out of it and it was my job to tell her about the cool things.
She was a little nonplussed when I did the math, told her I was almost 34 and had never been cool, and the mantle had firmly passed to her. She is required to tell me the cool things.
But she didn't argue!
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She was a little nonplussed when I did the math, told her I was almost 34 and had never been cool, and the mantle had firmly passed to her. She is required to tell me the cool things.
But she didn't argue!
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Belgium ends 19th-Century telegram service
Kids Start To Test Surprising Claims By Early Elementary School
Tiny KFC serving miniature food opens in Portland
How a Brewer and the Government Killed Colombia’s Ancestral Drink
Civil War Reenactments Were a Thing Even During the Civil War
One of my favorite C&H strips this time of year
Neon City: Where weird Austin and techy Austin meet
Alamo Drafthouse is launching a crazy new thing called a "video store"
How Hallmark took over your TV every Christmas
The rise, fall and return of Dance Dance Revolution in America
Birds learn from each other's 'disgust,' enabling insects to evolve bright colors
Someone needs to do a linguistic study on people over 50 and how they use the ellipsis. It’s FASCINATING. I never know the mood they’re trying to convey.
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FarmCrowdy raises $1M round to bring Nigerian farmers online and to market
Global effort to get kids out of orphanages gains momentum
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EPA cuts could risk a public health emergency
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Date: 2017-12-20 08:59 am (UTC)I'm 46, so not quite the right demographic, and I kind of disagree with this analysis. Not only did I not grow up with text-based chatting, (1) I actually was a red-pen brandishing English teacher, (2) I use proper punctionation and spelling and few abbrevs in texting, and (3) I think that use of ellipsis is Wrong. It is very much not the standard use of ellipses in printed language. The author, it seems to me, is correct about what they convey. Ellipsis. That word actually means something than the name for three periods in a row. It means "something left out". An omission. It means trailing off into silence.
Furthermore, most of the people I am texting (SMS) with are my age or older, and none of them use ellipses that way.
I'm dying to know where these mutant Olds are getting their usage sense of ellipses from.
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Date: 2017-12-21 05:15 am (UTC)So I agree. Weird Regional Mutant Olds.
...OMG I CAN USE MY "old me" ICON FOR THIS!
^okay, I do have a weird ellipsis case.
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