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On my cell, in txt mode, 2 get . press "1" ky 1x
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and to drop in moisture, 1 move?! huh, mighta known there'd be more variants than I have seen, but.
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and to drop in moisture, 1 move?! huh, mighta known there'd be more variants than I have seen, but.
"Twas the same on my old phone, too, from a different manufacturer. Maybe it's market-specific?
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> counter-intuitive, na
whaddya want? consistency?
extended ellipsis already counter-intuitive
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whaddya want? consistency? Hey, it just occurred to me, we could found a new school of thought, the consistentialists 
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whaddya want? consistency?
Hey, it just occurred to me, we could found a new school of thought, the consistentialists
Not *this group
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Self-proclaimed dead-thread proclaimers notwithstanding, thanks, mav. You did attempt to directly address my question, which remains unanswered. Maybe one of the dotty ones will reappear to explain the significance.
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Given that text messaging is, for the time, the province of youth, I suspect that the main significance of the extended ellipsis is that it is non-standard. The same observation applies to the great prescriptivist divide.
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formerly known as etaoin...
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A friend of mine does this in e-mail. I've just asked her, and she says it's because with more dots she wants the reader to think longer. As in: "She disappeared with John for two hours the night of the party... Not that I'm going to ask her what happened, you know..." is different from: "She disappeared with John for two hours the night of the party............... Not that I'm going to ask her what happened, you know................." Can you see any difference? 
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