In praise of em-dashes

[randy_byers]

My response to the recent screed against em-dashes is that I love em-dashes so much that half my love for silent movies is for the frequent use of double em-dashes in the intertitles:

Comments

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I find the use of an ellipsis to indicate a pause in speech overused.
I applaud the use of the ellipsis used correctly to indicate words removed from a quote or similar. Especially if an actual ellipsis character is used, rather than three periods. Editing and teaching have apparently turned me into quite the typography and punctuation pedant!