03-04-2011, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by rlin
im with the mister bent... all anyone needs is the ellipsis... it gives you time to breathe when you read....possession is implied mostly anyway... the rest is just for looks...
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Sweet baby jesus in lucite, then you go and defile it!
The ellipsis is three (3) dots, not 4 (except when the ellipsis is used in place of omitted words at the end of a sentence, or the beginning of a sentence following another, where in both cases a period is also employed), not 5, not 17.
It is not comprised of commas, or any other string or combination of punctuation marks.
Some other liberties with ellipses I can tolerate (proper grammatical usage, even - see above), but do not alter the beauty of its simple form.
I beg of thee.
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