[jlokier]

> Also, how do you write (delineate, identify, etc) small, short sentences without periods?

oh that's easy

you just write one short sentence at a time

like this :-)

[Twisol]

Worth noting that this carries a lot better in a medium like IRC or Slack, where the message framing implies an "end" in its own right. It looks a little strange in an HN comment, because they all come in the same single message.

[Jedd]

Aha - so you're using CR's to denote end of sentences rather than periods, which would be an interesting evolution for the (written) language.

Grouping related thoughts / points as sentences within a single paragraph still feels more right to me than trying to over-succinctify potentially complex concepts into tiny paragraphs.

[bccdee]

Language actually changes like this a lot, and it's really interesting ... Back a good 70 years ago, ellipses were commonly used for this in informal mediums such as postcards ... It leads to a very different-feeling messages ... Heard it on a podcast about how the internet has changed grammar [1]

[1]: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/how-the-internet-is-transfor...

[Aeolun]

Please never do this in Slack though. Unless all of your statements carry a different topic, that should be one message.