Thursday, 23 June 2011

dot dot dot

I couldn't think of what ... is actually called. So I looked it up:


Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from the Ancient Greekἔλλειψιςélleipsis, "omission" or "falling short") is a series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word in the original text. An ellipsis can also be used to indicate  a pause in speech, an unfinished thought, or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence (aposiopesis). When placed at the end of a sentence, the ellipsis can also inspire a feeling of melancholy longing. The ellipsis calls for a slight pause in speech.
The most common form of an ellipsis is a row of three periods or full stops (...) or a pre-composed triple-dot glyph (…). The usage of the em dash (—) can overlap the usage of the ellipsis.
The triple-dot punctuation mark is also called a suspension pointpoints of ellipsisperiods of ellipsis, or colloquiallydot-dot-dot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

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