to really really not like people putting three full stops at the end of sentences

[emkana]

There are a few posters who do this.

I really don't like it, totally changes the "voice" of the post in my head.

[Fussy, moi? ]

You know how everyone is going to end their replies, don't you...

YABU...

(And the prize for the most predictable post of the thread goes to me!)

Really...

Huh... That's odd...

I do it. I think I do it to change the voice of the post. I probably won't stop...

This was rather predictable...

I'm guilty...

I sometimes do it...

It has a real name is it an ellipsis or something?

Changing the tone is the whole point........................................................ ...

They're not full stops.

It's called an ellipsis.

I rather like it...

I like it. It's useful when you just want to trail off....

[[http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/node40.html here...]

when I do it, it's not 3 "full stops". It's either for linking... (e.g. thread title into thread) or because there is more to the sentence that I don't need/want/know how to write...

Just doen it this evening so suspect I'm one of the people who annoyed you...

oops here...

that'll be me then............

YABU not to have posted this in Pedants' Corner ... and yes, I'm sure it's an ellipsis :)

Why not? I like it, find it very useful to show I'm just drifting off, thinking (typing aloud)...

So basically it's only you that doesn't do it.....

How would you make 'ellipsis' into a plural?

Guilty. I do it for a dramatic pause. Apologies.

I love...

I do this all the time - and I too am doing it deliberately,to change the the voice of the post.

Or at least that's my excuse...

ellipses, I guess ...

Ellipses,KatyMac??