Weird. For me, the ellipsis is just a way of “trailing off” like I would when I speak. Kids these days… (no anger, just leaving off the “old man yelling at clouds” bits for brevity)
Especially in informal writing, tone is important, so various techniques end up developing to transmit that tone. Formal writing, which is what writing mostly used to be used for, does not use large amounts of tone
Weird. For me, the ellipsis is just a way of “trailing off” like I would when I speak. Kids these days… (no anger, just leaving off the “old man yelling at clouds” bits for brevity)
Language evolves, as it always has
Especially in informal writing, tone is important, so various techniques end up developing to transmit that tone. Formal writing, which is what writing mostly used to be used for, does not use large amounts of tone