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ellipsis test
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Comment by: phillmag Online- 2008-10-13 18:25
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| No ellipsis will pass my lipses! |
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Comment by: Scrissy - 2008-10-13 12:28
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| Playing with words/emphasis/punctuation is a writer's write/right and keeps him/her/it in touch with organic language. This allows the reader to start anywhere, end anywhere, go anywhere and just taste the words, shift the mening. Cool. |
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Comment by: WLC Online- 2008-08-22 14:05
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I accidently clicked on this interesting little bit of weird and couldn't resist adding my two cents. :D
If anyone's listening or gives a rolly rat's ass:
An ellipsis is an omission. To indicate that something has been omitted in written matter, writers use ellipsis points--three spaced periods.
When an ellipsis comes after a complete sentence, the three periods follow the ususal period at the end of the sentence, making a total of four. Leave an extra space between each pair of periods and after the last period.
A space before the first ellipsis point indicates that the just-quoted sentence is incomplete.
Example:
But the final value of action . . . is that it is a resource. . . . The mind now thinks, now acts and . . . a great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ellipsis points are not generally used at the beginning or end of a quoted passage if the context makes clear that the quotation is a fragment.
In spoken dialogue or inner dialogue, ellipsis points may indicate that a thought is left unfinished: She cared for him deeply, but this wasn't the time or the place . . .
I'm done . . . just bored and goofing around . . . oh, hell, who cares. I'm out of here! :D |
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| Rarely do I use them and then it's only for effect. But half the challenge is not to need them. |
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| That's cool, but I like Phil's Ellipsis better. That's a classic. And Karen tells me that you should never have more than 3 and you have 4. So what am I supposed to think about that? Who's right.... |
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