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I think the use of the "." is desirable after all abbreviations.
I don't. (just weighing in with my two cents' worth)
Didn't I see it here - the article, I think it was by Steve Martin, that was carefully constructed so as to use only one full stop in the punctuation of the entire piece? the premise being that the full stop is becoming an endangered species and that publishers of all kinds of printed materials are rationing its use? Just as this post of mine uses only one full stop that isn't recycled, in case you hadn't noticed!
Save the full stop! (or period, some calls it)
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carefully constructed so as to use only one full stop in the punctuation of the entire piece
He kind of cheated, as I remember, stringing three periods together and calling them an ellipsis.
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He kind of cheated
true...but they WERE an ellipsis, so perhaps he can be forgiven...! After all, we mostly call them periods on their own - but if there are three of them together (or four), it's easier to call them "an ellipsis," rather than "three [or four] periods strung together" - yes?
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An ellipsis and three periods are different creatures to a typesetter. Or so TeX would have you believe.
How can it be humanly possible that I have had to mention TeX twice in one day now? Strange.
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An ellipsis and three periods are different creatures to a typesetter. Or so TeX would have you believe.
Yes they are two different things. The ellipsis is a lighter weight than the full stop and the spacing of the three dots is equal (from memory) to one em wide in the same font.
- Pfranz
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Lessee:
... three periods (full stops)
… ellipsis
m m (duh!)
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Whatcha duhing about this time, Faldage?
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I just knew that three dots was too much.. 
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Duhing that I had to point out that m was m.
Three dots was too much for what?
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So an ellipsis is three periods folowed by climacteric
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