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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?
Thanks [/trying to keep up with the young folks]
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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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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.
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Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
Céline, somewhere (maybe in one of his last three books), has a little mock paeon to his three little dots. Amongst his anti-Semitic, anti-American, and anti-French rants ...
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I use them when I want the reader to continue the thought themselves...
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I use them when I want the reader to continue the thought themselves...
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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)
These are perfectly good explanations of the use of a single ellipsis, or even extended ellipses embedded in a sentence. The question was about the use of extended ellipses at the end of a sentence.
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> extended
ah, I wasn't counting...
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> spoken...
...and the conversation carries on anyway...
ASp asked "is this a text-messaging convention?" I'm no txt dmon, but I doubt this explanation, since most keypads require you to access the full stop (period) marker by using about three key strokes ~ since the essence of txt tlk is brevty not wt, this would seem counter-intuitive, na?
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> counter-intuitive, na
whaddya want? consistency?
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