It was probably intentionally done by a dev or product manager who didn't understand the implication of elipses in the American market... Even though I read th

It was probably intentionally done by a dev or product manager who didn't understand the implication of elipses in the American market... Even though I read these sentences as "trailing off" and ending awkwardly, others (and especially in different countries and/or with different languages that have their own "textisms" might read it as, say, more friendly... One example that comes to mind is in-game chat for many videogames, where your text is preceded by "<name>: "...Westerners will write out the full "smiley face": NoobSlayer420: :) Whereas Russians will write just the "smile" portion, possibly with extra for sarcastic emphasis: УбийцаНубов420: ))))))) I had a friend and coworker who wrote everything with elipses in place of full stops...all his emails read as a stream of thought...it was very distracting, especially in a business context...Now I wish I'd said something...