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Originally Posted by Solumina
Why is it that so many people use ellipsis when they really should be using a comma? I'm not against the use of ellipsis by any means, I do use them rather frequently myself (I do tend to insert random thought tangents after all, my style of speaking involves a lot of extended pauses, and sometimes my brain just kind of shorts out in the middle of a post...and by shorts out I mean I see something shiny and get distracted), I just don't get why of all punctuation makes the ellipsis seems to be the most commonly misused...well possibly the colon...but still people need to stop using things that they don't really know how to use.
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I suppose you are correct. Maybe I should work on my puctuation. Congratulations, by the way, on your engagement.