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

I have been thinking about the changing nature of the ellipsis as a grammatical device. A few days ago, I was going over a draft of a graphic novel I am about to send to the publisher. It is called ...