I can't help it... The lack of understanding from people about how to use dot, dot, dot, is frustrating and annoying!

[wildhairrunning]

Why oh why are there so few people out there who use the 'points of elipsis' rule correctly? When you use dot, dot, dot, (...) it is THREE and only three dots, not however many you feel like putting

Like this... Then begin a new sentence with a space
Or...like this (for use in a sentence

Please people, use your dots correctly, it's driving me mad!

Aibu?!

OP, do you really have nothing better to do with your time than getting worked up about how many dots other posters put in their posts?? Seriously??

To those people that do know actually know what this is, can I ask where and when you were taught it?
I did do English A Level, but Eng Lit degree.
I actually can't believe that there is a proper rule about how many dots you use.
Admit it OP, it was me that pushed you over the edge enough to start this thread

OP I disagree your examples of how they should be used correctly. All my degree textbooks say it should be written [...] and that not using square brackets has become common but is in fact wrong.:O

Witherhills I'm doing a law degree. I learnt it as part of that.

And there's me thinking you were complaining about the modern lack of interest in learning Morse...

Guilty as charged........

It's a habit picked up from a rather lovely man called Alan..... a naughty one but nothing compared to what I taught him......

:o

Oh I have an ellipsis on my forearm tattoo...

Is there a shortage of dots ?

I have squirrelled dots away all over the place. You will never ever find them mwahahahhahah
and just when you think it is safe I will .........................................

blatent waste of dots there but I needed to prove a point.

Exactly what point I have no idea

I am bored

shouldn't you be over in pedants corner? You should change your name to DotDetector or DoubleDotsDon'tWork or ThreeIsTheMagicNumber or some such...?

YANBU.

However, I have found the two full stops and one parenthesis that seem to have gone missing from your original post. Here they are: ..)

I'm about to commit the mn sin of not reading all the posts.

Wrt the OP I don't care. It's a forum, I have enough problems with the shift keys not working properly.

I used to like, and over-use, ellipses; fear of being mistaken for DP was an effective cure.

My degree in English is from Timbuktu University and I'll thank you to know that I am well aware of ellipses...es.

If the omission comes after the end of a sentence, the ellipsis will be placed after the period, making a total of four dots.?

If words are left off the end of a sentence, and that is all that is omitted, indicate the omission with ellipsis marks (preceded and followed by a space) and then indicate the end of the sentence with a full stop ? . If one or more sentences are omitted, end the sentence before the ellipsis with a full stop and then insert your ellipsis marks with a space on both sides. ? As in this example.

Whoo hoo, nickelbabe, that link is padantrytastic!

... And means that the OP is wrong

Tsk, pedants should be able to spell pedantrytastic. Even if it isn't a word ... .

You use more than three dots, if you do it like this: ... ... ... ... ...

-. - ..- / -.-. .- -. / -.. - / .-.. - - ... / - ..-. / -.. - - ... / .- -. -.. / -.. .-

Oh bugger, the overstrike thing messes morse.

Rubbish!

It I'd either...

Or...like this

I am the DOT Queen and you will all LISTEN to me!

GAH! Bloody phone! Is not I'd!

You can only use three. It is an internet rule, to stop people wasting too much of internet ink.

It's ellipsis. With three dots. And they really should be space . . . like this!

I am the DOT Queen and you will all LISTEN to me!

Yes ma'am!

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I know someone who talks and writes with... It is very irritating and I can hear the ellipses when they speak...