Today is dedicated to the ellipsis. For the non grammar nerds out there, that's this: ...
Last year, I tried to give up ellipses. I went cold turkey. No more ellipses. Cut them out of my punctuation vocabulary entirely.
Christ, it's harder than quitting smoking. They just slipped right back in there.
I've been told that I write just the way I speak. There have also been lots of complaints that I trail off at the end of sentences. So until my speech patterns change, it looks like the ellipses are here to stay.
So here's to you, ellipsis. We're going to be together for a long time.
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