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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Edwarda who wrote (1906)2/28/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: David C. Burns  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
Those aren't ellipses; they are merely pauses.

If three periods seriatem are not ellipses, what are they. I know of no other name for such punctuation.

In speech, I suspect, she fills in any moment of potential silence with some equivalent of "ah" or "um" or "like"--am I onto something?

No, the woman is able to talk while breathing in and there are no silences, potential or otherwise.
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