...triple dot [ellipsis] mania...

I can... at times... be SO perverse...
especially when I have the opportunity...
to give a hard time to my friend...Miz Minka...

recently...

OK...last night...

she was "complaining" about my "fondness for the ellipsis"...
[she has called me "the Queen of the three dots..."]
"What's wrong with ending a sentence with a period ?", she purred...
warming to the subject...and preparing to have some fun at my expense...
"writers should use commas, and then, a period, to end a sentence.
One shouldn't just use "dot-dot-dot" all the time."... etc...

momentarily stymied... I came back with the trés lame...

"Oh thank you, Mz German correctness..."
or something similarly snide & equally as ineffectual...
as she chortled with glee...at having made her point...
& quite totally zapping me...at the same time...

I quickly changed the subject...but she was so pleased with herself...
that I knew a speedy rebuttal was definitely in order...

never one to do something small...when I can do something BIG...
I wrote my previous post...with NO ellipsis...until the end...

not satisfied with that...

I decided to do this also...

an entire post on the ellipsis...



please join me...[hee...hee...]

on the dark side...



an ellipsis is properly used to signal the omission of part of a sentence...

OR...

to demonstrate a pause or trailing off of a thought...

is it overused... ?

oh, yeah...

especially by moi... ?

you bet'cha... !

the last few years I taught... I taught English...
and let me tell you...

the "grammar police" can not make up their minds...

I got so tired of students complaining...
about all the contradictions in the punctuation rules...
that when I no longer had to enforce them...or care...
I didn't...and...I...like...doing...this...

not because I can bug MM with it...
[that's just a side benefit...hee, hee...]
it's my way of telling all those indecisive...
anal... punctuation rule-making dictators...
to shove it...
where only a colonoscopy will find it...

meanwhile...back from the rant...

though generally 3 periods in a row...
ellipsis can be made in many shapes...
and of many objects...especially in art...



there...of course...is always someone...
who goes too far...






and I detest "smiley faces"...even this one...
[I have the right to be grumpy if I want to be...]


but the piéce de resistance of my Google search was this...



a new project for MM... our talented knitter...
this is actually called,"the ellipsis hat"...



just what we all need on those cold evenings...
when we find ourselves getting "chilled"...
while saying "good night" in the parking lot...

it would look especially lovely...
done in shades of purple...

hee... hee... hee... *snort*