[Sca-cooks] Ellipsis...
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Thu Sep 12 18:28:24 PDT 2002
Also sprach lilinah at earthlink.net:
>and it is quite specifically only three dots...
>...not some unspecified number.
>
>It would be easier on me visually if some of the folks who love using
>the ellipsis would limit themselves to three dots...
>
>I return you all now to your regularly scheduled Cooks chatter :-)
I use them frequently... (when I'm not using parentheses, that is...)
...but I always use three dots, _unless_ it's at the end of a
sentence, in which case it is three dots followed by a period... .
Which some interpret as four dots....
Adamantius (...)
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deserves to be called a scholar."
-DONALD FOSTER
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