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Your grammar is better than people from any English speaking country, so of course you know that an ellipsis represents an omission of one or more words within a quoted passage. At least, this is assuming you are following the AP Styleguide—if you were using the Chicago Manual, your ellipsis use would have been very different! We'll be proceeding with our formal complaint under that assumption.

In colloquial writing, you may occasionally see the ellipsis used in ways that deviate from formal style manuals. Those include:

• An expression of longing.
• A pause in speaking.
• A leading statement.
• An unfinished thought.
• An echo (in groups of three identical dependent clauses).

However, none of those apply to this situation. As a perfect grammarian, you surely understand how everybody was caught off guard by your unclear punctuation use. Many of us spent the last eight hours confused about what happened to the rest of your comment. Who were you quoting? What else did they have to say?

Please let us know so that we can clear up this misunderstanding once and for all.