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From: datwinkdaddy@*******.com (Da Twink Daddy)
Subject: [OT] Punctuation (was: [OT] Re: Nega Mage? & Sidhe?)
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:57:02 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Wagner Hansen" <l-hansen@*****.tele.dk>
> From: "Shannon Buys" <Shannon@*****.co.za>

> > 3) The "." period. It ends sentences. Use only one.

> Hmm... I actaully find that i use three periods (...), to indicate
that I'm
> thinking, or to elaborate that I'm not entirely convinced.

Using 3 periods is incorrect. Commonly the epllipsis, which looks a
lot like 3 periods, is used for this purpose. When an elipsis is not
is your typeface [As is the case when sending US-ASCII text, and many
other charsets], it is acceptable to use ". . ."
[period-space-period-space-period] instead of an ellipsis, but it
should have a space before it (unlike a period). However using an
ellipsis for this purpose, while a common pratice, is bad writing
style. An elipsis should be used only to indicate that a direct quote
is incomplete or out of context. [For reference, the ellipsis is
UNICODE character 0x2026:
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint 26]

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