… Those "three black dots" appear everywhere! Any place you can possibly type or write something, you will most likely see them appear! It seems as if everyone and their mother are using them in absolutely everything. They are in style at the present time. They seem to be replacing other punctuation marks that we should be using on a daily bases. The author acknowledges that they are "replacing commas, question marks, and even periods". They are being used incorrectly and no one has seemed to notice. Ellipses are actually meant "to show omissions from within a piece of text". In other words, they are used to symbolize that there is more information, but it is being withheld from the paper. He makes a funny comment about something he wrote in an email. He says:
All Star Game………….” Who knows what I meant by that one. At no point did anyone reply with, “What the hell are you talking about?” or “Could you please give me a bit more information here?” And of course none of those folks mentioned anything about the ellipses.
This is so true! Even I do it all of the time. I actually did this in a conversation I had the other day with Natalia Ordoñez (fellow student in the same section). I wrote to her, "pero oh well, ya paso…" That is obviously not the correct way to use the ellipses. I am not going to give her more information or anything. However, I also notice that I put the ellipses when I have sent an incredibly long text but am not still done with my news. This is obviously a bad habit. Natalia mentions this in her blog post,
… (yes, that is the title). I could not agree with her more. We really do use them in our "emails, letters, text messages, and formal papers." EVEN FORMAL PAPERS! Have we gone nuts?! For some reason, we really do believe they can be used to create "emotions" in our messages. This habit is like cracking your knuckles or biting your nails. It's a terrible habit that NEEDS to be STOPPED. This goes for everyone and their mother. Calm down on the freakin ellipses.
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