new style of writing i will call (dot dot dot)

wahahaha... this is my style of texting messages and i have also been accustomed doing it also here in the computer...like what you say the dot dot dot style of writing hehehe... ^_^ whoever had started this kinds of abbreviations in long words then i am head over heels to you!

Metal_monkee, I like your left picture,a lovely monkey.But the picture is not clear. It looks like a little baby in monkey coat. Well, three dots... interesting. By the way, may I konw WB, LMAO, CTC, ASL mean? My mother language is not English. So, I am not sure what it is meaning. Could you explain it to me? Thank you.

I suppose it's a style of writing which is worth mentioning which brings to mind my friend who writes in a peculiar way. He does not use paragraphs at all but numbers. He numbers each grouping just the way other people would use a paragraph to mark a new topic or idea. Dot dot dot. Someone could come and invent the dash style. Cheers!

Im pretty sure i invented it..lol ha ha no..... its just ive been doing it for so long and not because i can remember seeing someone else do it but when im writing to someone and the thoughts are flooding in faster than i can type thats when i use the dots the most....and i guess it can also be a pause when im not sure exactly where i should let the sentence go next. Its kind of something i do when im not really thinking, thats why I havent done it here cos im to conscious of it now hehe

Usually we end a sentence with a single dot like this. Its a very formal thing. But we like something other than this and something new. Hence we invented a new syntax of ending a line or sentence with three dots like...and continue the same topic with different point of view. Its just to say that this sentence has not ended and there is another part of this sentence.

thats funny as hell i would have never thought to say something about that... i also do it i dont really know why but i think it might be from typeing what you are thinking as fast as it can come out and when you need time to think about something you want to say it just comes out as... lol PeAcE

it is not only you. i have seen few of my friends doing that. it is more so when they send SMS/ i have sms saved for one friend who has the habit of putting 3 dots after each sentence. may be its there in human mind.

Oh yea, I tend to do that at times as well. I've actually been trying to break the habit, at least on here. Because I didn't know how people felt about it, and most the time I don't realize I'm doing it. It really is such a conditioned response, and probably because I have spent so many years on message boards and im's, where most the time nobody really cared about perfect sentence structures and stuff. I do care about that stuff, don't get me wrong, but some habits are just hard to break once you start them. I am glad to see that I'm not the only person who does this. Obviously I'm not in this response, because well, I'm talking about it, therefore, really paying attention. LOL I definitely don't see a problem with it for casual conversations, and sometimes even in a formal paper or something if you are giving a quote or something, but it is probably something that should be used in moderation, if possible. :)

Ever since i joined mylot.. i used to write like this.. it is just like taking a pause.. before you come out with next idea... I think there are no masters for it.... it had find its own way.. See, i never know whether it is a new style of writing are not. When you listen to deep conversations..that are going on, a sentence started never ends, they used to go on adding with " and" ..." and" or some words like " because" " although" etc... and the sentence usually runs for many lines, sometimes it comes to a paragraph or more... and i feel in this way, this kind of writing would have come. Thanks for bringing a different and lively discussion friend.

i used that way of writing too, but that was before. im used to wnd a sentence with using more than one dot. ahhmmmm for me it indicates that there would still be continuation with the words i wanted to say. and, the dot is a kind of style, i think an informal one. you can use many dots when you are writing informally.

well i don't know when did i actually started using the "...", ellipsis as named and explained here by magojordan. thank by the way to you magojordan. i just found myself using the ellipsis in text message, and now in mylot and elsewhere... this is a nice thread, metal_monkee... ^_^

well, i also use this type of writing especially when i do some writings that doesn't require much formality on it.

Those three dots are called an ellipsis (...) They are used to indicate a pause or to indicate that something has been omitted. As much as possible I use the ellipsis for its proper use.

I also use this style....i think it goes way back to my days of ICQ...this was before msn messanger...anyways...I've been texting and typing in this "dot dot dot" style ever since.

Hahaha! I'm also using that style of writing.. If it's called dot dot dot com style of writing then so be it. Peace... How bout the comma comma comma chamelion style of writing? hehehe,,,,

Wow... i thought i was the only one using this style... eversince i became a member of mylot... i started using three dots after each sentence... or after i phrase where i thing i made a point... i don't think we can point at anyone who invented this style... anybody can use this style... and the dot is like the most common mark of all time...

Hi, metal_monkee. It is like a fill in the blank type of thing, as for me it is. I use this sentence formation because I want someone to fill in the blanks while they try to figure out what I am trying to say.

hey all... i donno from where i picked up this style... but there is a difference, i wont use it to end all the sentences. i dont know where all i use this "dot dot dot", but after some sentences i feel like using this. especially while ending a paragraph or so... just check out my previous postings for more...

hahaha!!! Now I really love this discussion... great to know I'm not the only one who writes in this manner... Been writing like this since I was in high school but when it came to formal stuff, I lay off the ... hahahaha!!!

hehe...i m one of the dotdot gang...actually is not i like to write in this way, it just because i m not good at using the punctuation so i use "..." to replace those punctuation...hahaha