[quote=“jimipresley”][quote=“Belgian Pie”]A typo is a mistake made in typing, pushing a key next or below the supposed key … not 3 keys to te left …
This is a spelling mistake … (agend)[/quote]
Maybe when you learn to use the ellipsis correctly, you’ll be justified in pointing out the “spelling mistakes” of others. 
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Well, allow me a little nit-picking here: the use of the three dots as seen above is not an ellipsis. An ellipsis is the use of three dots (separated from the surrounding words by a space) to represent the intentional leaving out of certain words from a quoted remark. This is common in reportage to allow brevity and condensed versions of a longer piece while preserving the meaning.
Viz, “The ceremony honored twelve brilliant athletes from the Caribbean who were visiting the U.S.” and leave out “from the Caribbean who were”:
“The ceremony honored twelve brilliant athletes . . . visiting the U.S.”
The three dots usage as practiced frequently on these boards is generally three periods appended to the end of a sentence in place of a period to indicate a tapering off or a dramatic pause… which is not an ellipsis but an aposiopesis. Confusingly, the three dots used to indicate an aposiopesis are also called an ellipsis (or ellipsis points), though in this case, that is not their function. Ellipsis points used to indicate an aposiopesis are not separated from the final word of the sentence or clause or phrase by a space… OTOH, ellipsis points used to indicate ellipsis that ends a sentence should always be separated from the final part of the sentence by a space, for a total of four dots (period, space, ellipsis): otherwise it’s an aposiopesis, not ellipsis!
It is also acceptable to use an m-dash to indicate aposiopesis, rather than an ellipsis, though the latter is becoming more common as its use requires only a single finger to type while an m-dash requires option keys, etc.
The MLA Handbook recommends using square brackets on either side of the ellipsis points to distinguish between an ellipsis that you’ve added and the ellipses that might have been in the original text. Such a bracketed ellipsis in a quotation would look like this:
“Bohr […] used the analogy of parallel stairways […]” (Smith 55).
The MLA Handbook, and the Chicago Manual of Style used to advocate separating each dot of an ellipsis with a space, but that looks too long for some in modern typography. It’s still a useful device, and you will still see it in true ellipsis.
(I could have written all of that, but it’s faster to grab stuff from someone else. Thanks to wikipedia and grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm)
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or :roflmao: ) or to give “an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue” (Wikipedia), but in many cases simply to slow down the flow of the text, that means, to create the effect as if it was spoken (or accompanied by face expressions or gestures).
