Spaw, I love your idea! English grammarians would accept "..." ONLY as an ellipsis. All other uses of a series of dots as subtitutes for commas, periods, dashes, semicolons, parentheses, etc., would be called "florps" and would have to have MORE THAN three -- preferably 5 or more -- dots! That'd solve it!



As for Webster's accepting "flaunt" as a synonym for "flout," the online Merriam-Websters does, but it's obviously just reporting on usage. That dictionary acknowledges that "although this usage [of transitive sense 2] "... undoubtedly arose from confusion with flout, the contexts in which it appears cannot be called substandard. ... " (They go on to cite a couple of pretty well respected texts in which that usage occurs.)

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