Rep. Jared Polis has as of late been having some trouble squeezing in everything he wants to share on social media. But the Colorado Democrat has a plan to streamline overly wordy thoughts: tildes. #grammar #grammarpolice Hey Mr/Ms. Grammer ppl, how about we use ~tildas~ for paraphrashing to resolve this: https://t.co/14OmrWQlHo — Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) January 5, 2014 Twitter flock ongoing discussion "It is challenging to condense quotes from articles into 140 characters,” Polis said in an email regarding his struggles with concise, but still cogent microblogging. Per his unsatisfactory research, Polis found far-from-definitive advice urging content shrinkers to employ everything from multicolored fonts to plain brackets. (more…)
