Talia_Brie

JM, I know what he was responding to, and that is not the topic of this thread.

JM, can you explain how your post is resisting the momentum to take this thread off topic?

Let's keep this discussion on topic.

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Hodge

How was it on topic to chastize me for attacking someone when I didn't?

Talia_Brie

Aren't we having that discussion elsewhere?

I'm perfectly within my rights to attempt to ensure the members of this forum stick within the guidelines of the forum.

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jmsx521

I am looking at examples from:
http://www.answers.com/topic/ellipsis?gwp=19
I'd rather look at online samples: can't buy a book to read about this topic.

1. Forth dot is a period! (...and still learning.)

2. Why would a word, that is partial -- in a quoted text -- be ended with ellipsis? For example:
"John was going to the airpo...." . If the word is obvious, wouldn't the ellipsis be substituted with brackets, enclosing the correct letters? airpo[rt]

3. Can there be comma, before/after the ellipsis?

4.Is this correct?
John's birds were great, ...tasting!
John's birds were great ...tasting!
(meaning not that John's birds were great tasting, but (used for punch-line) that his birds were great, but not aesthetically!

5. What about two sentences with the punchline being in the second, which can't exist w/o the first one.!?
John's birds were great ...Tasting wasn't bad!
John's birds were great. ...Tasting wasn't bad!
John's birds were great, ...Tasting wasn't bad!
John's birds were great: ...Tasting wasn't bad!

6. And how about this:
John's birds were great ... and not bad at all!


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Oracle

Talia, Hodges, this is all just much ado about nothing...
In my opinion, nobody attacked anybody, and the comment was light and amusing. Subject DROPPED! buah ha ha...

ellipses are great for trailing off maniacal laughter.

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2. Why would a word, that is partial -- in a quoted text -- be ended with ellipsis? For example:
"John was going to the airpo...." . If the word is obvious, wouldn't the ellipsis be substituted with brackets, enclosing the correct letters? airpo[rt]

...no... it wouldn't... the whole idea of using the ellipsis there is to let the reader know dialog was either interrupted or the speaker stopped in mid-word... so, adding the missing part would negate that...

3. Can there be comma, before/after the ellipsis?

... yes, before [i think]... if the ellipsis indicates a break and the complete sentence would have had a comma there... but not after...

4.Is this correct?
John's birds were great, ...tasting!
...no... there's no reason for a comma to be there...

John's birds were great ...tasting!
...no... because there should be no space before the ellipsis...
(meaning not that John's birds were great tasting, but (used for punch-line) that his birds were great, but not aesthetically!

5. What about two sentences with the punchline being in the second, which can't exist w/o the first one.!?
John's birds were great ...Tasting wasn't bad!
John's birds were great. ...Tasting wasn't bad!
John's birds were great, ...Tasting wasn't bad!
John's birds were great: ...Tasting wasn't bad!

...all those are incorrect... no capital goes after an ellipsis, unless the first word is a proper noun... you can't use one for a punch line if it's not part of the same sentence...

6. And how about this:
John's birds were great ... and not bad at all!

... makes no sense, since 'great' and 'and not bad at all' are both positive comments... if you'd left out the 'and' it might make some sense, if you were negating what someone had said or expected...

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