Hi

In English writing, especially in e-mail messages, an ellipsis is used to indicate a pause or a falter, or a trailing off ...

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ellipsis.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis




On 07/01/2013 12:10 PM, Fx Person wrote:
Hi Brent,
As for the punctuation, perhaps.The double dots .. are meant to act like “long pauses” to which I’m not aware of a standard way of expressing that. I have seen the extended(long) dash used as such, though not exactly, & I actually didn’t find it in the Character Map.


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