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I've noticed a new style introduced here by maygodbwidu and tuhin; that of ending every sentence with a series of dots.......... is this a text-messaging convention? And if so, why?




Perhaps ellipses – like Emily Dickinson’s multiplying dashes – symbolise the synapses engaged in analogical flashes of cognition.


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Thanks [/trying to keep up with the young folks]



It's way too late for that :

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Death on the Installment Plan (1936) by Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) introduced the stylistic innovation of using ellipses and apostrophes to capture the rhythm of everyday speech.

Columbia University Press, P. McCarthy (1976)



But there's your real answer.

Last edited by Homo Loquens; 12/10/2005 3:21 PM.