As anyone who has ever had an IM conversation with me or noticed the titles of my entries will know, I over use ellipses.
From the Wikipedia:
An ellipsis is sometimes used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence. While not a correct usage, ellipses are often used in this manner for internet chat, email, and forum posts.
Maybe in some way I've helped to propagate this usage, because I've been doing it for a long time and occasionally, it rubs off on people. Or maybe I'm just being egotistical....
Something I've noticed recently in several entries on various blogs and LiveJournals is that a lot of people will use the title of the entry as part of the first sentence. In doing so, they end up with a title like I was walking through the park..., but on the first line of the entry, they have and a guy mugged me. It confuses me every time too because I have a tendency to ignore the title of the entry. If they had started the entry with ...and instead, it would have made more sense to me.
I believe the correct method is to add the ellipsis at the beginning of the first line because they are completing the thought started in the title. I'm still looking for evidence on which way is correct, or if they're both wrong. Anyone know for sure (preferably with support for your statements)?
I keep looking and it's going to bug me until I find out for sure. It's been three or four days now since I saw the first one, and it keeps getting worse every time I see it.
