My comment to an entry 'PSA for millennials - an ellipsis is just an ellipsis' by cigarskunk2
Want to offend me with an ellipsis? Use the single glyph version. Seriously, that was only invented to make it easier for programmers to truncate file names, and should only be used for that purpose.
Also, it's four dots at the end of a sentence. An ellipsis for missing text, and the terminating period. (Which can also be a ? or !)
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I hate to say this, but you can either use three dots to end a sentence or four. BOTH ARE ACCEPTABLE!! Both are grammatically correct, DEPENDING on which of the many grammar books you go by.
Fact is there is NO 'rule' on it. I had an editor who made me do it for several years. Next editor took them all off.
More people use three than four. The single character that many word processing programs us, used to cause issues with Kindle. But not anymore. So I no longer care which I use.
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The auto-correct feature in various software packages seems to assume more and more control over our typed text unless we can locate and turn off the feature entirely. Dashes, fractions, quotation marks, ellipses... All of these elicit an frustrated "Stop HELPING me" response from myself and everyone else in my immediate family.
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Like when they get the curly quote the wrong way....
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