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tsuwm said:
> just too.. cute for words.
not unlike your new avatar.......
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>[my] new avatar.............................
is there for the intended purpose of.. no, I mustn't reveal that yet.
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A friend of mine [...] says it's because with more dots she wants the reader to think longer.
But even then wouldn't it be necessary to use multiple ellipses "... ... ... " with spaces?
I don't think the "extended ellipsis" is a text messaging convention at all. It is just a corruption, like the egregious use, so popular at AWADtalk, of the asterisk to mark out certain words (relax, *jocose* banter). As has already been pointed out, the engine of invention for text messaging is economy of expression. Having to press a key 15 times just to finish a sentence doesn't satisfy this requirement at all.
But there is another explanation for the excrescent ellipsis which does satisfy the law of the conservation of energy: The offending poster is simply holding down the Period key until a satisfying number of dots have appeared. Keeping an ellipsis to three dots by this method would be a miracle of hand-eye coordination.
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Maybe it's not an ellipses at all, but a row of dots. After all, a dot isn't a period.
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Maybe it's not an ellipses at all, but a row of dots. After all, a dot isn't a period.
While we are on the subject of heterodox punctuation use, is there a term for that emphatic use of a period after every word in a sentence to create a (highly effective, I think) staccato effect? For example :
Oh. My. God.
Or :
Worst. Movie. Ever.
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stopatto?
(and yes, I agree it's effective!)
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> is there a term
I don't know, I'll ask my periodontist.
> stopatto
heh.
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