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Maybe it's not an ellipses at all, but a row of dots. After all, a dot isn't a period.



While we are on the subject of heterodox punctuation use, is there a term for that emphatic use of a period after every word in a sentence to create a (highly effective, I think) staccato effect? For example :

Oh. My. God.

Or :

Worst. Movie. Ever.