Hey, my English grammar may not be perfect and my typing skills suck, making it worse but, I assure you I am very good at my native language. But I digress...Well. "I use them to show a pause in my words." is a complete sentence. Thus a single period would show a pause.
It's not that they use "short hand." They couldn't use proper grammar even if they tried. Hell, I doubt most people could use proper grammar in their native languages (in the case of English not being their first language).
I think the guy above meant "pause in my thoughts"- at least that's how I use it. I also use it when I snip someone's quote to show that I am quoting it partially.
Someone told me that using it too much shows too much confusion in the personality though. >.>
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