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I like to use ellipses.

I use them all the time, which probably means that I use them incorrectly

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no, I use them incorrectly.

When used properly, ellipses indicate the omission of text from a quotation. They are not to be used at the beginning of an abridged quotation if the part omitted text is before what is being quoted.

"...and then he said, 'What're you, stupid?'"

"and he said, 'What're you, stupid?'"

They are to be followed by a period of the omitted text is at the end of the quote.

"so Forrest looked at the man...."

there are also rules about ellipses and paragraphs or carriage returns, etcetera, etcetera, and so on and so forth.

I will, however, stand by my use of ellipses, because, frankly, it seems to communicate more of my thought process than just a plain period... to me...

I use them when my idea needs to lead into the next, or if I feel the need stop the sentence in mid-thought.

but mainly because when I am typing out my thoughts, the ellipses indicate that I am still thinking about stuff in my head...

so the typing stops, but the thought does not...

see...

but you do not know what I am thinking after I stop typing because I do not type that part...

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my [over-]use of ellipses can probably be quite annoying to those that it annoys, others could not care less. Of course, that redundant statement was not necessary, but I thought I would put it there because I felt like it.

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and the singular for ellipses is ellipsis... not to be confused with the plural for ellipse (a closed plane curve. an oval.)