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Cripes. There's a guy on one of the old forums I frequent (yes, really) who does the ellipsis thing.
he writes literally everything all in lower case... with every thought punctuated with nothing but an ellipsis... even if hes asking a question... you know... youd think its a bit but hes been doing it consistently for years... i have to wonder if he actually writes all this work emails and professional correspondence like this too... like if he actually writes something out on paper with a pencil does he end every line with...
Anyway, lots of dumbasses in our country have been failed by our dumbass education system, which was ruined by other dumbasses. It's infuriating.
i think what makes it so unnerving to me is that i don't see it just being caused by a lack of education, because if you can write then surely you can also read, and thus surely you can read normal text which exists everywhere and can't be missed
the kind of bad writing that lack of education causes is more just bad grammar and boneappleteas (writing unknown phrases as the closest matching words you do know, so "bon appetit" turns into "bone apple tea"), with maybe some sloppy punctuation usage but not outright
Such a thing is a "malapropism," which is now your word of the day.