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'Fix Unnecessary Ellipses First... Please'

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Adam Clark Estes 862 Views May 4, 2012

After we unleashed our wrath about the world's unruly use of exclamation points in emails, we got to thinking: Which other punctuation marks could we do without?

Atlantic Wire commenter econn84 has a suggestion:

Fix unnecessary ellipses first... please!

And how about doing away with the hashtag (#), too. Everybody knows it's just a comedic crutch that makes tweets harder to read... right? (Sorry!)

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