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Is it inappropriate to use an ellipseellipsis to create a conversational pause in a typed sentence, in a situation where it's not appropriate to use a comma or a dash or anything else? There's no grammatical pause; there's just a conversational pause that would be present if the typed sentence were spoken aloud.

Example (from a comment that I posted on a Buzzfeed video): "So many props for using 'risen' correctly...and then rescinded for placing a redundant 'up' behind it.""

Can I correctly use the ellipseellipsis that way?

Is it inappropriate to use an ellipse to create a conversational pause in a typed sentence, in a situation where it's not appropriate to use a comma or a dash or anything else? There's no grammatical pause; there's just a conversational pause that would be present if the typed sentence were spoken aloud.

Example (from a comment that I posted on a Buzzfeed video): "So many props for using 'risen' correctly...and then rescinded for placing a redundant 'up' behind it."

Can I correctly use the ellipse that way?

Is it inappropriate to use an ellipsis to create a conversational pause in a typed sentence, in a situation where it's not appropriate to use a comma or a dash or anything else? There's no grammatical pause; there's just a conversational pause that would be present if the typed sentence were spoken aloud.

Example (from a comment that I posted on a Buzzfeed video): "So many props for using 'risen' correctly...and then rescinded for placing a redundant 'up' behind it."

Can I correctly use the ellipsis that way?

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punctuation to indicate non-grammatical pause or omission

Is it inappropriate to use an ellipse to create a conversational pause in a typed sentence, in a situation where it's not appropriate to use a comma or a dash or anything else? There's no grammatical pause; there's just a conversational pause that would be present if the typed sentence were spoken aloud.

Example (from a comment that I posted on a Buzzfeed video): "So many props for using 'risen' correctly...and then rescinded for placing a redundant 'up' behind it."

Can I correctly use the ellipse that way?