What Do Multiple Commas Mean?

In My Humble Opinion
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Right. And how are the young folk of today supposed to have absorbed this information? It’s not like there’s an older generation typing like this, or is there? “Cc”, by comparison, is used all over the place, so there is a clear chain of knowledge from older generations to newer.

I think the most likely explanation is that it is either a matter of “one comma means pause so multiple commas can mean a longer pause” or, like the earlier link suggests, it is a softer version of “…”.

It’s for carbon copy. bcc is “blind carbon copy”.

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If the letter is going to only one person “cc” is still the term used.

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I don’t think I have ever seen multiple commas used. But it would give me pause. Also pause, pause, pause, pause. If one is trying to be unconforming it would seemz that dere are e@sier W@z3, possibly old hat…

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Aha. A prescriptivist. :grin:

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:thinking: :+1:

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I don’t waste much time on generational warfare but, if I wanted to write a Facebook list saying that today’s kids are soft and weak, “feels that ellipses are too ominous and hostile; needed a less scary version” would probably top the list.

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I learned forward slash and backslash from a cartoon similar to this one.

Thanks for bringing the multiple commas to my attention. I had assumed it was just a typo or people not understanding ellipsis.