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From: Sam Gillett on 20 Mar 2007 01:24

<agila61(a)netscape.net> wrote ...

> On Mar 16, 5:35 pm, "Andrew Wiskow" <wis...(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>> those..... are..... not..... colons.....
>
>> they..... are..... periods.....
>
> Maybe they are colons that fell over.
>
> Like these::::........
>
> Don't jiggle the screen, the others could fall over at any minute. And
> for goodness sake, type gently.

I tried typing gently, but my semi-colons are falling over anyway....

There they go! ;;;,.,.,.,.,.,.

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Sam Gillett

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From: Hernan Vergara on 20 Mar 2007 18:18
Hi Andrew,


On Sat, 16 Mar 2007, Murple wrote:

> On Mar 16, 5:35 pm, "Andrew Wiskow" <wis...(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Mar 16, 7:02 am, Martijn van Buul <p...(a)dohd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > it..... might..... work.... but....don't....hold... your.... breath....
> > > if... your....mind...is......still....capable.....of.....processing....
> > > texts.....without....an....abundance....of.....annoying....and...inappropri­ate
> > > ....colons.....you...could....try.....to.....read....
> >
> > those..... are..... not..... colons.....
> >
> > they..... are..... periods.....
^^^^^
periods


>
> Actually... the... term... is... ellipsis...
^^^ ^^^
ellipsis


How about that! ;->


From: BlackJack on 21 Mar 2007 03:02
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:48:54 +1030, Hernan Vergara wrote:

>> > they..... are..... periods.....
> ^^^^^
> periods
>
>> Actually... the... term... is... ellipsis...
> ^^^ ^^^
> ellipsis
>
> How about that! ;->

No, these are three periods: ... and this is an ellipsis: …

In the quoted material above I just see periods. :-)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
From: Sam Gillett on 21 Mar 2007 18:16

"BlackJack" wrote ...
>
> No, these are three periods: ... and this is an ellipsis: .
>
> In the quoted material above I just see periods. :-)

Three periods are the ASCII equivalent of an ellipsis. Also commonly used
online to indicate a brief pause between parts of a sentence, and/or between
thoughts, or to indicate that it is someone else's turn to add to the
conversation.
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Best regards,

Sam Gillett

Change is inevitable,
except from vending machines!



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