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The article What The... explains the misuse of "..." (the dot dot dot) so called: ellipses. Malady shows various examples of commonly misused ellipses, then he tells about a little experiment he makes. The experiment consisted in texting family members who apparently knew him too well so they would figure out the misuse of the ellipse. Unfortunately, society is so accustomed to this wrong use, that no one, not ever his own mother noted a difference or corrected him in any particular way. 

After reading the article, a quote stayed on my mind: “people are communicating like they are talking, but encoding that talk in writing”. And I thought about the last blog entry we made where language should be written as we speak, but then I thought: language should be written as we speak, but do we write in a bad register? Why is it "ok" to speak in a way that is not "ok" for writing? 

Then, the thought simply drifted; but when I logged into Facebook, I came across many (and i mean MANY) posts with the improper use of ellipses i had just read about! -It bugged me.

Now, I understand the difference between writing in a way similar to the way we speak and simply having "dots all over the place".