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(I'm not sure if this will work since you aren't registered, so I'm putting it on my talk page as well.)

The last time I tried to make format changes, I got chewed out by Hamster (vol 7 translator), so I'm not even going to bother with it anymore. There are two possible reasons why he chose to add so many ellipses: 1) He really likes them or 2) That's where they are placed in the original novel. I can't verify 1 but as for 2, the translators here seem to like sticking to literal translations, which I don't really agree with. As a result, you will see ellipses of various sizes in places that don't make grammatical sense in English in the translated text. I don't have the time to go back and compare everything with the original so I'm just leaving things as they are. If you feel that removing ellipses is necessary, by all means go right on ahead. All I will be doing for Hamster's translations is quick grammatical edits, since I feel like arguing about trivial shit anymore.

- Softtack 08:06, 17 February 2009 (PST)

I know what you mean about making novels more "readable". If I had free reign here, I would probably rewrite half of the texts because honestly, it would probably be faster in a lot of cases than to try and decipher some of the literal translations. I used to be pretty liberal with my edits but I don't think the people here like that, since it makes it harder to find certain points of a chapter to do translation checks and such, so I trying to loosen up in a sense. The overuse of ellipses bother me (a lot) as well but since Toradora isn't really a proper novel, I figure it's okay to leave them be, as long as they're present in the original Japanese text.

- Softtack 13:42, 17 February 2009 (PST)