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C.<p>&gt; "They were so aggressive in their text!"</p><p>&lt; "Why, what'd they do?"</p><p>&gt; "They used an ellipsis!"</p><p>Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/aggressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aggressive</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/trigger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trigger</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ellipsis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ellipsis</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/octothorpe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octothorpe</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ampersand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ampersand</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hyphen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyphen</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/caret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caret</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/parentheses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parentheses</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/brackets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brackets</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/braces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>braces</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/asterisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asterisk</span></a></p><p>[1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/clotheshorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clotheshorse</span></a>".</p>
Phillip Upton<p>My last <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ellipsis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ellipsis</span></a> was… yesterday.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/@annecavicchi/112270516400659223" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mindly.social/@annecavicchi/11</span><span class="invisible">2270516400659223</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p>OK, despite what the style guides say about putting spaces around <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ellipses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ellipses</span></a>, I’m going to revert back to the unspaced version in all cases except elision, because I just don’t like how the spaced versions look then.</p><p>There are three kinds of ellipses: Three period characters separated by (no-break) spaces: `.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.` [Chicago], three period characters with no intervening spaces: `…` [AP], and the Unicode <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ellipsis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ellipsis</span></a>: `…`, which I think can always be a stand-in for the AP style.</p><p>To me, placing spaces before and after ellipses only make sense for elision. in the Chicago style: “The fox jumped .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. lazy fox”, and the AP style: “The fox jumped … lazy fox”. To my eyes, the spaces clearly indicate missing words or sentences.</p><p>For pauses and trailing speech, I think adding a space makes things look really weird: “I … uh … I mean …” and “Launching in 10 … 9 … 8 …”. For those use cases I like to eliminate the leading space, e.g. “I… uh… I mean…” and “10… 9… 8…”. They just look *better* to me.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a></p>
Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國<p>Does anybody know how to type an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ellipsis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ellipsis</span></a> (…) on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a> for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>? I can't find the answer anywhere, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Google_search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google_search</span></a> gives me nothing useful. 🤦🏽‍♂️</p>
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