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? ]

It isn't three full stops, as has been said already.

It has a point and isn't done simply to irritate Emkana.

I do it...

so shoot me...

:)

LOL...

all these examples are asseptable

It's the posts that go...like this... a sort of stream of consciousness.. very tricky to... read and incredibly annoying

so ner

....but how do you feel about the posters who always start their posts this way? I can think of at least one...

Yes yes I see the usefulness and all, trailing off into thought, very good -

but after every single blooming sentence??

I think I do that...

Thank you RandomMusings - was beginning to doubt my sanity!

Rather than ellipsis' or ellipsi...

I do it and I stand by it. We need all the punctuation choices we can get when we don't have tone of voice and that sort of thing. I'm always terrified of being misunderstood and people thinking I'm annoying.

I don't think I am...

I use it...

Shorthand for saying "there is of course more to this very worthy debate but I have made my point and can no longer to be engaged in spelling ot out to the rest of you morons..."

Or sometimes it just means I can no longer be arsed...

well I do....
so yabu
if you don't like it tough.....

look - you are all doing it to trail orf at the end of a sentence. that is fine.

but to do it mid-sentence is MADDENING

...and since I do do it all the time cn I take the OP as a personal attack...?

Please...please...I've never been the subject of a MN personal attack in the OP but I'm up for it...I'm 'ard!

And OP did you really think posters were just being decorative with their fullstops?

I do it all the time. Its my thing.....

BUT I once had a weird FB message conversation ruck with my OH's twat of a neice (adult) and she wrote...like...this..all...the...way..through...about...twenty...messages...

Now THAT is annoying.......

Some posters do it constantly, and it does make them look a bit flakey, tbh...but then again, if you always end with a full stop, you can look rather dogmatic. So there.

But the op said it was at the end of sentences.....

I agree though.....mid sentence is a little.....irritating

i love that there is a name for it!!

Ellipsis...hmm...

I'm one of those posters you mention, aren't I...?

I know I do it.

I intend to... it's not an accident. I use it to trail off an idea which isn't so cut and dried.

I've even been known to use four at times....

I love elipses... but I can't spell it.

Annoying or not?

I think it should behave like "crisis",KatyMac - so crisis,crises - ellipsis,ellipses,but I could be wrong...I often am...

Flakey? Well,really...

Yanbu i have always preferred 4 .... much better, more symmetrical

Tis deffo ellipses.

I have to say I have used one in a text...but only once

I have to fight the urge to end my sentences with exclamation marks! I am sure you would find that a lot more annoying! But I can't help myself!!!

No, no, no. It has to be three. Any more is just wrong.