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> think longer
Good call, Marianna ~ sounds likely.
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Though it might be more effective so: "She disappeared with John for two hours the night of the party... Not that I'm going to ask her what happened, you know..........."
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I guess I need to 'splain myself better.
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So why doesn't anyone ask her? .........................
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> 'splain myself better
sorry if you felt mantled, Wodge - but in fairness I thought Marianna was making explicit the possible difference being attempted by someone choosing <......> in preference to just <...>. And TEd's post implies a whole nother question... where does a query or exclamation sit in relation to such extended pawses...?...!
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Could it be a countermeasure to truncation? If part of the end is cut off in transmission, nothing very essential is lost.
To mention a biochemical analog (once more): many genes have "long terminal repeats" at their end, which tend to grow shorter with generations. Their function hasn't been completely explained so far.......
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> mantled, Wodge. zok. considering the difficulty I'm having thinking about further description for this, I think I do really need to learn to 'splain my self better. something about hand gestures, and etc....  and sieb, interesting thought. and I just like saying "countermeasure to truncation"..............
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I got what you were getting at early on, dear patê-never-chopped-liver eta. What *I'm trying to get at is we have two new members, both of whom use this convention and some of the word-shortenings typical of txt mssg. Is this a current stylistic thing? I know there's nothing new about it, having messed around with punctuation most of my -- er -- creative life.
Marianna's example was interesting, and may be getting closer to the current phenom. And Uncle Werner's biological analogy makes sense to me, too..................
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*some of the text-message styling seems just too.. cute for words.
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Quote:
*some of the text-message styling seems just too.. cute for words.
NO! NO!
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