Topic: This is a proper ellipsis: "…"
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #48,171
You may also use three full stops, like so: "..."
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later[^] [v] #629,736
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Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #629,746
which one is lunar again
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We can actually pinpoint the man who really started using Ellipsis all the time, or at least popularized it in modern lit: Louis Ferdinand Celine.
He had a telegraphic style that he wanted to capture the "rhythm" of actual speech, which ended up looking pretty disjunctive: “so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...”
Hell of a writer, but less well known than he should be given his general dickishness.
He had a telegraphic style that he wanted to capture the "rhythm" of actual speech, which ended up looking pretty disjunctive: “so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...”
Hell of a writer, but less well known than he should be given his general dickishness.
Metæ? joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,850
A true.. soutehrb gentlnean.... doesnv need ellipsd....... trippytripgrlm..........
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 5 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,851
What the fuck. Using an ellipsis in your writing is the most passive aggressive and annoying thing you could possibly do, ever. Other than taking a shit on a piece of paper and putting in your neighbor’s doorway as an expression of your distaste with their grass being half a foot high.
It’s like, you took an extra two keystrokes to invoke the image of some fucker just lingering on an idea, that you want me to complete the thought, that you don’t have enough fucking spine to say what you mean so you’re going to let it all hang out there with two extra periods and hope I finish the thought for you.
You know what? Fuck you! Next person to answer a question like “Do you want Mexican?” with “I don’t really like Mexican…” is going to wish they’d just fucking said, “No, I don’t like Mexican.” Because I will retaliate with a verbal beating so painful and righteous they wont even say “That’s so ironic!” for a fucking YEAR.
I know you fuckers can tell the difference. You put those extra two periods to be an asshole, to have attitude, to piss me off and ruin my day. Well nice job, it worked. I hate today. I haven’t used an ellipsis in 5 years because they’re the most wasteful piece of shit in written communication. Unless you’re quoting something and want to cut out a part of the quote. That’s legit.
And don’t use them when writing stories, either. Not at the end of dialog, not at the end of a sentence, not at the end of a paragraph as a shitty amateur attempt at showing the passage of time. Don’t use them to make your ending seem “vague” or “mysterious” either. Because it’s basically the literary equivalent to a fucking Hillary Duff song. Nice try but you fucking suck. Get out of my life forever.
It’s like, you took an extra two keystrokes to invoke the image of some fucker just lingering on an idea, that you want me to complete the thought, that you don’t have enough fucking spine to say what you mean so you’re going to let it all hang out there with two extra periods and hope I finish the thought for you.
You know what? Fuck you! Next person to answer a question like “Do you want Mexican?” with “I don’t really like Mexican…” is going to wish they’d just fucking said, “No, I don’t like Mexican.” Because I will retaliate with a verbal beating so painful and righteous they wont even say “That’s so ironic!” for a fucking YEAR.
I know you fuckers can tell the difference. You put those extra two periods to be an asshole, to have attitude, to piss me off and ruin my day. Well nice job, it worked. I hate today. I haven’t used an ellipsis in 5 years because they’re the most wasteful piece of shit in written communication. Unless you’re quoting something and want to cut out a part of the quote. That’s legit.
And don’t use them when writing stories, either. Not at the end of dialog, not at the end of a sentence, not at the end of a paragraph as a shitty amateur attempt at showing the passage of time. Don’t use them to make your ending seem “vague” or “mysterious” either. Because it’s basically the literary equivalent to a fucking Hillary Duff song. Nice try but you fucking suck. Get out of my life forever.
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