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Re: [OM] the war is over, they won

Subject: Re: [OM] the war is over, they won
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:51:45 +0000
It might be seen as sinister, but only if the preceding words were of that 
tone, surely.

Chris

> On 11 Dec 2019, at 16:49, Mike Bloor <admin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> My wife recently wrote an e-mail to a friend and put ... (dot dot dot) at the 
> end of a sentence.
> 
> The friend warned her that this was now seen as "passive aggressive".
> 
> No - it makes absolutely no sense to me either.
> 
> Mike
> 
> At 16:32 11/12/2019, Jan wrote:
>> It’s especially lovely that the email list software “helpfully” replaces 
>> things like smart quotes, curly apostrophes and ellipses with question marks
> (It should really butcher that sentence
> )
>> 
>> So Chris, it might not be that we put question marks after statements, but 
>> that we put “dot dot dot” at the end of the statement, like this
> 
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