No, you can follow an elipsis with a period. I’ve seen it in honest-to-God style guides used by publications. That makes four in a row - in this case, it suggests a sentence that ends, but trails off first.
And while my English teachers taught me to put space around each period in an elipsis, that’s not universal - custom varies between publications and probably between the UK and the US.
Just curious. In the sentence “Where has all the spelling gone?” does this wording seem to suggest the existence of some non existing noun. I mean I can understand saying “The spelling in your post is horrible” where “in you post” pertains to “the spelling”. What if I said “Where is the spelling?” It seems that the word usage in the OP is incorrect or at least clumsy. Any grammarians out there?
Had he used more than one ellipsis and replicated the error, he might have one too many period in his ellipses.
Anyhoo, I make typographical errors all the time, as well as a number of odd grammatical mistakes that usually come of incomplete editing. For example, in a political post, I might write:
…but later decide to rephrase it as:
…except my edit is hastily and clumsily done, with some of the original undeleted, ending up with:
I often forget to proof-read. My advice to the OP is to chill and deal.
Seriously, ewe awl knead too reed this.
(Worksafe - it’s an ezine. Article written by a friend of mine. Registration not required unless you want to join in on the discussion, in which case the registration is free.)
I initially thought that this was a thinly veiled attack on *****, but when I saw the reference to “great reply” I realized that it was more of a generic complaint.
I am hopeless at grammar, my spelling isnt too bad though. I wouldnt mind if people wanted to correct me, especially on this message board where most of you come across of nice, polite educated poeple.
But when you start threads like this, and make snarky comments after mistakes have been made, it really pisses me off and the end result is that I have no desire to fix my mistakes.
If some of you were just a bit nicer about it, this problem may not be half a bad as it is.
I know Ive probably made a spelling mistake because I said my spelling is ok. Its bound to happen.