Quite true. While I'll admit to being a prescriptivist at heart, I do often use ellipsis as a pause because it 'looks better' than the proper double-dash. My ire is properly aimed at those who pass their not-even shorthand off as proper sentences and spelling, claiming that it's okay because they're implicitly understood. They're typically the same ones that devolve into 'WTF' and 'LOL' when you try to argue with them, which is even worse for discussion than the previous complaint.
It still makes me a little twitchy when I see people who should 'know better' doing it (that kernel of prescriptivism again), but tweaking text has a much different effect in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, than it does with someone for whom proper punctuation is a myth.
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It still makes me a little twitchy when I see people who should 'know better' doing it (that kernel of prescriptivism again), but tweaking text has a much different effect in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, than it does with someone for whom proper punctuation is a myth.