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This? Is not grammatically correct.
Neither? Is this.
It makes prose? Sound whiny and ineffective.
When I do this? Somebody please kick my butt.
Almost every time I see an ellipsis... a comma would be better.
Commas indicate natural pauses in speaking... as this seems to be trying to do.
If it's meant to add emphasis... it's not working.
When I do this... somebody please kick my butt.
Comma splices are another one, each of these should be a sentence, it drives me crazy when I have to read it, I never know if the writer has a point in mind, in fact I usually start to figure they don't, I'm probably guilty of all three of these too sometimes, maybe I should have been a grade-school English teacher, this kind of thing really jumps out at me, when I do this somebody please kick my butt.
I feel better now.
Neither? Is this.
It makes prose? Sound whiny and ineffective.
When I do this? Somebody please kick my butt.
Almost every time I see an ellipsis... a comma would be better.
Commas indicate natural pauses in speaking... as this seems to be trying to do.
If it's meant to add emphasis... it's not working.
When I do this... somebody please kick my butt.
Comma splices are another one, each of these should be a sentence, it drives me crazy when I have to read it, I never know if the writer has a point in mind, in fact I usually start to figure they don't, I'm probably guilty of all three of these too sometimes, maybe I should have been a grade-school English teacher, this kind of thing really jumps out at me, when I do this somebody please kick my butt.
I feel better now.
Re: Grammar Goths
As Allan will likely tell you (whence the topic arises,) I am hell on ellipses.
Re: Grammar Goths
Here's an Amazon link: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire (http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Transitive-Vampire-Handbook-Innocent/dp/0679418601/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216164809&sr=8-1). Mine's softcover, though. And since the topic is punctuation, the more relevant book is The New Well-Tempered Sentence (http://www.amazon.com/New-Well-Tempered-Sentence-Punctuation-Handbook/dp/0618382011/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216164945&sr=8-2) by the same author. I haven't read the second one, though.