My own sins include using “basically”, “bottom line”.......and the dreaded, “let me be blunt”.....which is in itself a way of not being blunt.
OMG....now I notice my little “dot.....dot.....dot’s” annoy even me......oh well. More insecurities.
While lying your ass off.
It’s called an ellipsis. And they only annoy me when people do it wrong. There should be only three dots. No more. No less.
Which gives me an idea...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis