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The massively slutty ellipsis…

December 11, 2013Piers KellyWriting Leave a comment

And still on the topic of writing I really enjoyed this article from waitbutwhy. It really nails the ambiguous pragmatics/etiquette of email which after all is very new modality of communication. I especially love how the ellipsis can be “massively slutty”. Enjoy!

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