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ellipses are not used to designate a pause in writing

 
 
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Reply Thu 15 Jan, 2009 08:30 pm
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Yes, but not by proper English speakers.


What is a "proper English speaker", Kicky?
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Reply Sun 18 Jan, 2009 01:32 am
Sozobe -- no two spaces after a period any more, thanks, unless you're using a monospace font like Courier (looks like a typewriter). The reason for it in the first place was that the typewriter font didn't always show enough space to indicate the end of the sentence. New fonts automatically add a little space on the right side of the period so the sentence ends and beginnings are clear. So, one space only after any punctuation.
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Reply Sun 18 Jan, 2009 01:42 am
Hmmm...I just learned something new...cool Very Happy
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Reply Sun 18 Jan, 2009 01:52 am
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Yes, but not by proper English speakers.


And that's you mob?



And who is going to be the some-one to break the news to David (Omsig)?

Sorry, nd hoo is go'ng 2 B the sumwun 2 brake the nuus to Dayvid?
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 04:28 pm
That is NOT true. It does not say that it can't it just isn't one of the definitions. Every GRAMMER BOOK I've read which are made by professionals says that it IS.
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 04:30 pm
Valeria wrote:
Every GRAMMER BOOK I've read


Did you read them attentively?
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 04:43 pm
Has there ever been a total ellipse of a grammar book?
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 06:05 pm

not punny...
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 06:14 pm
All I know about grammar I learned from JTT. That's why people always criticise my poor command of the English language.
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 06:18 pm
I learned everything I know about grammar from Emily Dickenson-
and
ee cummings.
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 06:30 pm
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All I know about grammar I learned from JTT.


A good indication of how much you know about language, Merry.
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 07:04 pm
Green Witch wrote:

and
ee cummings.


i did, too.
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Reply Sun 15 Nov, 2009 09:54 pm
Finally replying to Wy, I say that I don't care about font changes, I like two spaces between sentences. So there...
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Reply Mon 16 Nov, 2009 02:28 am
GW wrote:
I learned everything I know about grammar from Emily Dickenson- and ee cummings.


No wonder.

But shouldn't the spelling be: Dick in son and ee cum mings?

(Mine is a wicked grammar, I know..)
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Reply Mon 16 Nov, 2009 05:33 am
Your problem is you read in english, but think in french.
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Reply Mon 16 Nov, 2009 06:15 am
I've never thought of it as being a problem of mine...
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Reply Mon 16 Nov, 2009 03:55 pm
....zap notice to express support for your gentlemanly ἀποσιώπησις (credit: George, previous page) >
http://able2know.org/topic/127951-1#post-3533463
> of fact spelling of "Dickinson" is invariant in transformation from English to French <G>
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Reply Mon 16 Nov, 2009 04:04 pm
I didn't know my aposiopesis was gentlemanly, I'd qualify it as naughty..
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Reply Mon 16 Nov, 2009 04:12 pm


.............tamen usque recurret, et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix Smile
(source: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/horaces-villa/poetry/Epistle1.10.html )
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Reply Mon 16 Nov, 2009 04:17 pm
I don't even need to use a pitchfork for that, HS! Twisted Evil
 

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