Ellipses are being over employed and misused across writing. The real and only purpose of an ellipses is to omit words from sentence. Society and social networks have used these so differently that I never actually knew its only correct use until know. Facebook, twitter, texting and others have all led me to believe that I can use it to replace "um" and "uh'', make a pause, change the topic, or leave a conversation open ended. Society has had such an impact on me that I've even used these incorrect forms of ellipses in formal papers.
While reading Mateo Wiesner's blog post in which he criticises Cristina Angel I could not agree more with him. He calls Cristina out for claiming that ellipses should be used only in the academic way, in formal writing (which is for omission). Whatever happened to letting language evolve? Now that we have completely changed the use of this grammatical punctuation we might as well change the rules.
Ellipses are something that I use and see every single day while texting. The reason for this could be as Malady explains: "The relationship between the alphabet and talking was progressively broken as people learned to sound things out in their heads. Now we’re seeing a moment of reversal, where people are trying to use alphabets like we’re talking, and it’s ... hard. So we reach for the ellipsis".
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