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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yamakita who wrote (1436)	8/22/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: R.V.M.	Respond to of 4711

Yamakita, Is "grammar cop" your, ah, title? Just wondering! <g> Jill

To: Yamakita who wrote (1436)	8/23/1998 12:17:00 AM
From: Lee Fredrickson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Yamakita: Yamakita, grammar cop (taken by force from Joe Hoek) Was title taken by force or by dint of mane? News starved minds want know. Lee

To: Yamakita who wrote (1436)	8/23/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

<SLAP> goes the ruler! Three for inter-sentence ellipses (sentences that continue). . . (note the spaces between them) and four for the last ellipses that end the sentence. . . . Is this true? How is it that I've never come across this rule before? Three for inter-sentence, four at the end? And is it also four at the end if the ellipses at the end are the only ones in the sentence or text? (Please don't tell me they aren't allowed in that circumstance, it's just too oppressive.) And the spaces between them are very nice, but is that also a rule? Just wondering.... (See how the ellipses after "Just wondering" evoked me with a musing facial expression that lasted for as long as three seconds after the submit button was clicked?) (What a fun thread!)