On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:36:35 +0100, in a place far, far away, Martin
Frey made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) wrote:

You didn't spot the three dots I put after I wrote the word
"heartless"; that means I was joking.

Not to most people. That's a new usage for an ellipsis.

New to you perhaps.

Yes, new to me. How would I know for sure to whom else it's new to?
I only know that I've never seen it used for that purpose before, and
I read (and write) a lot. Perhaps you're part of the weird minority
to whom that would have been obvious.