By the name of it, I was expecting like a squished little circle lol! Of course I've seen that a bunch of times, but thought it was more to express like "etcetera"
I'll also look-up what's the long dash also briefly referenced in the article (about the three little dots) And guess I was missing a dot :) ________________________________ From: Stephen Blair <[email protected]> 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. >
