*stabs eyes with spork*

[godiva696]

I could wax lyrical about the noticeable effect popular (and by that I mean widely read) reading material has on the standards of English grammar/punctuation, but instead, I would like to take this opportunity to quote from a book I feel I will be consulting very frequently from now on, "The Oxford Guide to Style

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[hmmm_tea]

...but I like ellipses, even in the wrong place...

(Am wondering whether the other end of the country is a safe enough place to be typing this from...)

[godiva696]

The question being, do you like them even when they are the only form of punctuation in an entire 20kb+ of text?

If the response is yes, then no, you're so not far enough away! ;-)

[hmmm_tea]

ermm....

Probably best if I say no in that case then.