A Harvard-educated linguist explains why Boomers use ellipses in texts, and the reason is simpler than you think.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This generational texting habit might be worse than using capital letters. This “Boomer” punctuation irritates Gen Z recipients — ...

Admittedly, using ellipses correctly according to spelling rules is cumbersome. However, isn’t the bittersweet charm of K-office life reading nuances between “nep” and “ne”? Rather than causing ...

From Slate: "Dashes — useful and lovely though they are — are not … ellipses. They excel at representing interruptions, trains of thought abruptly shorn off. Meanwhile, an ellipsis trails away ...

As I’ve been exploring iOS 13 to write the just-released Take Control of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, I’ve become concerned about what seems to be an increasingly frequent pattern in iOS software design.