• Gabe Bell@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So now one else is going to comment on the fact the text just stops halfway through a wo

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      6 months ago

      It’s basically like an ellipsis. The punchline has been delivered, that this “game” is just imprisonment, but to actually describe imprisonment, you’d need a lot more sentences.

      It is interesting, that it doesn’t use “…”.
      I guess, you’d write “…” when a thought is somewhat complete, whereas here, it’s specifically a run-on sentence that’s being cut off.