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The use of ellipsis to trail off is a newer development than its older use of indicating omitted text in a quote.
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- Gretchen McCulloch Internet linguist; wrote Because Internet
The older use of ellipsis is to indicate omitted text in a quote-the use of ellipsis to trail off is newer.
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