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pajju on June 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: DjangoCon EU 2011 Videos

what is the whole idea of writing ... 3 dots? Is it for readability or anything else?

mryan on June 29, 2011 [–]

It is often used to show that something took a long time to do, although rarely do you see so many occurrences in one sentence!

sixtofour on June 29, 2011 | [–]

Right, I was trying to recreate the flow of watching the first few minutes of each video.

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