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Originally Posted by tcblue13
An ellipsis is only three consecutive periods, not six.
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As someone who grew up around lead, hot type and Linotype machines, I must point out that you are wrong. An elipsis is NOT three periods, although I supsed that is the way it is done in most (but not all) computerized fonts and typefaces today. If you look around a little, you will find there are specific commands for a true ellipsis.
For those of us beholden to the way things should be done (kind of like polishing our shoes before we go out to do a very low level co-ed rec game) there are things like that ellipsis — just like I just typed alt+0151 (on the numeric keypad) for that dash, NOT two hyphens.
So, before you go bashing someone, know of whence you speak. It was some philosopher, Sophocles or Shakespeare or P. Diddy,who said something to the effect that a fool is not known until he opens his mouth.