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Re:Hell Is Other Internet People by ambicapter on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:42PM (#20548435)
I don't know when ellipses started signalling an old person, I used to use ellipses in my teenage years all the time (25-38 demo here).
Re:Hell Is Other Internet People by dictum on Sunday July 28, 2019 @03:10PM (#20549286)
I'm in the same demo, and I wasn't aware of ellipses being seen as an habit of old people.

Biden's (or likely, his team's) usage is atypical; ellipses are usually only used when you're citing somebody, to indicate unintelligible segments or sentences that are not crucial to the thought being relayed, and when you're voicing some degree of surprise, doubt or reticence about the forthcoming sentence (e.g. "She thought I was ready... maybe I wasn't.")

(If they ever come for my semicolon, I'll take up arms.)

Re:Hell Is Other Internet People by homonculus1 on Monday July 29, 2019 @09:36AM (#20554426)
The example is correct usage... not perceived as old at all... but when grandpa replaces all punctuation... peppered in between disjointed fragments of thought... LOL! Very difficult to read!