I completely and utterly misuse these. Grammar dots are what other people call ellipsis. The proper use of the ellipsis is in a quotation; when material is left out of a quotation the ellipsis replaces the excised text.
"Steve does not use ellipsis correctly on the blog or on the facebook, he is a dumbass. He uses it incorrectly."
"Steve does not use ellipsis correctly . . . he is a dumbass. He uses it incorrectly."
I use the ellipsis to insert random thoughts, or reference something outside thought train. I should be using the em dash I believe. However, I type fairly fast and the dash is too high up on my keyboard and interrupts my typing.
So I'm going to keep misusing the ellipsis . . . .
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I believe it is more properly called the 'Uhm' dash.
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