[Sca-cooks] Ellipsis...

[Butterflye]

> ..but that series of dots preceding or following a truncated quote
> or a somewhat unfinished sentence or incomplete thought is a
> legitimate punctuation mark and actually has a name:
> Ellipsis
> 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...

Wow. All I can say is, wow. I used to be an English teacher, and even I am
not perturbed by the use of more than three dots in typing. Wow.

Might I ask, why? The phrase "easier on me visually" is something I am not
grokking.

~~Lorète du Papillon,
Barony of DragonsLaire
not even a little bothered by .........