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In reply to the discussion: 67 year old woman here..long and varied work history...Most of my female bosses were horrid. [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,615 posts)The profligate and inappropriate use of ellipses is not good writing. They are normally used to show that something has been omitted, either literally or by suggestion. They have their place, maybe when writing dialog in a novel to express hesitation or the leaving of something unsaid, but there's no need to sprinkle them all over everything. "Depending on their context and placement in a sentence, ellipses can indicate an unfinished thought, a leading statement, a slight pause, an echoing voice, or a nervous or awkward silence. Aposiopesis is the use of an ellipsis to trail off into silencefor example: "But I thought he was
" When placed at the beginning or end of a sentence, the ellipsis can also inspire a feeling of melancholy or longing." I don't think any of those expressions were intended in the OP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis