Ellipses play a major role in Enterprisian dialect. Ve use zhem to express emotion; trail off sentences; replace commas, periods, question marks etc...
I vondered just how many posts on TE contain an ellipse compared to zhe number zhat don't. So I read every single post on TE and left no rock unturned.
Here are zhe results:
Zhere are 691 posts on TE. 340 of zhose posts, including zhe one you're readink now, contain at least one ellipse. 351 posts don't contain an ellipse.
Estimatedly, 45% of TE's posts have an ellipse somevhere in zhem...
Wow.