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03-17-2011, 07:26 AM
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What do you think of them? I find the ellipsis (and abuse thereof) to be the written equivalent of a passive-agressive tone.
It's as if ending a sentence with a period was too strong a statement. I recently noticed my condo's corridors are filled with signs written like this: Quote: Do not place waste in the chute between 10 PM and 8 AM... What if you were the janitor...
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03-17-2011, 07:34 AM
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perhaps too much...
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03-17-2011, 07:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | I think it adds either a tone of contempt, deeper thought or just gazing off into the distance (depending on context).
Hover beating me to my point . . .
Hmm . . .
Yeah, I probably use them too much too . . .
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03-17-2011, 07:35 AM
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03-17-2011, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Kolkata (Calcutta), India | | | I use them to indicate that there's more thought going into what I'm writing than the mere thoughts that my words are conveying. If I use them at the end of a statement, it's generally indicative of the fact that I'm awaiting a response and have something more to say.
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03-17-2011, 08:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | I'm with champ on this one, I agree it can convey tone or whatever, but for me it is because I try to add so many tangental points to my statements at times...I just want to cover the million variables I am trying to express without sounding like one long run-on sentence
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03-17-2011, 08:12 AM
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03-17-2011, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex What????????? | nevermind......you wouldnt understand the heightened level of literacy i use.....
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03-17-2011, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by hover I use them....constantly...
perhaps too much... | +1
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03-17-2011, 08:22 AM
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03-17-2011, 08:25 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | They're meant to just show where there are some words missing or left out, but nowadays people do seem to use them now to convey a sense of "please read on" or "to be continued" (myself included). I think that's because there aren't really any other symbols that convey that sense particularly well.
Of course, some folks just indiscriminately litter everything they write with them, too...
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03-17-2011, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by bassybill They're meant to just show where there are some words missing or left out, but nowadays people do seem to use them now to convey a sense of "please read on" or "to be continued" (myself included). I think that's because there aren't really any other symbols that convey that sense particularly well.
Of course, some folks just indiscriminately litter everything they write with them, too... | That's how I see them too. Sometimes, they can be replaced with an em dash (—) when the two sentences are related. But that's just typographic elitism on my part.
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03-17-2011, 08:41 AM
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03-17-2011, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by L-A That's how I see them too. Sometimes, they can be replaced with an em dash (—) when the two sentences are related. But that's just typographic elitism on my part. | I have always perceived the dash as somewhat casual - just my opinion, by the way; I see it as a replacement for the more formal semi-colon which seems to come with a more specific set of rules which I probably just violated.
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03-17-2011, 08:52 AM
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Suspension points (or periods of ellipsis). They're officially called "ellipsis", "ellipses" plural — but their set of rules degraded over time and they don't suspend or ellipse anymore...
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03-17-2011, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Thor I have always perceived the dash as somewhat casual - just my opinion, by the way; I see it as a replacement for the more formal semi-colon which seems to come with a more specific set of rules which I probably just violated. | 
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03-17-2011, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Thor They call them ellipses? They look suspiciously like multiple periods to me... | +1 I didn't know that's what they called them either...
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03-17-2011, 09:14 AM
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03-17-2011, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 I thought an ellipse was one of these: {
-Mike | It's a brace, or you can make a developer squeal and call it a "flower bracket" too. Bracket Ellipsis
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03-17-2011, 09:23 AM
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