Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
in any situation, so this is *my* issue.
+1

Hence my feeling that I need therapy to deal with it. Much like I need therapy to deal with riding in a car for a long time.

Things become standard and accepted after a while. It's happened throughout the history of language. I do think that while this is happening, those of us who might write for a living should try to produce professional, readable documents with correct punctuation and correct spelling. Outside of the professional realm? Doesn't matter so much. That's when it really becomes my problem. Language is changing. It happens.

So, Oak, you can use as many ellipses as you want! (And for the record, I didn't really have much of a reaction to ellipses until this co-worker came along. She completely destroyed them for me, which is too bad, because they are a genuinely cool form of punctuation.)