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Originally Posted by Sorter
I wish the entire topic of discussion went away.
Also, why so many periods?
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Ellipsis Marks
Use ellipsis marks when omitting a word, phrase, line, paragraph, or more from a quoted passage.
There are many methods for using ellipses. The three-dot method is the simplest and is appropriate for most general works and many scholarly ones. The three- or four-dot method and an even more rigorous method used in legal works require fuller explanations that can be found in other reference books.
These are commonly used as a way of trailing off a sentence, kind of a fade out, or used in a sentence to connect two or more different thoughts, like a stream of consciousness type of thing.