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by necovek 2070 days ago
I am not sure why would you think that... If a period is to make a statement firmer, ellipsis does it triple...

Like that, right? ;)

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...I have a coworker who starts nearly every sentence thus so, as if continuing from the last sentence, even if you haven't talked to him in a few days.
Someone I converse with regularly online has a tendency to do this in a way that strongly conveys "your idiocy has left me speechless" in contexts where he seems to (or at least claims to) only intend "your position is surprising".
I use the ellipsis at the start of an IM sentence primarily when I've accidentally hit enter mid-thought.