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  1. How many ellipses do you want?

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    #Ellipsis #Dropdown #SharePoint

  2. How many ellipses do you want?

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    #Ellipsis #Dropdown #SharePoint

  3. How many ellipses do you want?

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    #Ellipsis #Dropdown #SharePoint

  4. How many ellipses do you want?

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    #Ellipsis #Dropdown #SharePoint

  5. How many ellipses do you want?

    Thanks Black Asthesky for the picture

    #Ellipsis #Dropdown #SharePoint

  6. I want to see all categories. I said all. I said all. Thank you!

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    #2gis #ShowMore #Ellipsis

  7. I want to see all categories. I said all. I said all. Thank you!

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    #2gis #ShowMore #Ellipsis

  8. I want to see all categories. I said all. I said all. Thank you!

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    #2gis #ShowMore #Ellipsis

  9. I want to see all categories. I said all. I said all. Thank you!

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    #2gis #ShowMore #Ellipsis

  10. I want to see all categories. I said all. I said all. Thank you!

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    #2gis #ShowMore #Ellipsis

  11. I have had people go frothing at the mouth when I point out that a lot of #punctuation is "#silence #notation."

    A #comma is a point of silence, it is shorter than the point of silence of a #period. #Ellipsis (...) is a fade to silence. #Emdash/dash is an abrupt silence. #Parenthesis invokes a point of silence before and after an aside, much the same length as a comma.

    People forget that the written word is made to represent the spoken word, that includes silence and change of pitch.

    ? and !

  12. > "They were so aggressive in their text!"

    < "Why, what'd they do?"

    > "They used an ellipsis!"

    Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]

    #aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk

    [1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".

  13. > "They were so aggressive in their text!"

    < "Why, what'd they do?"

    > "They used an ellipsis!"

    Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]

    #aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk

    [1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".

  14. > "They were so aggressive in their text!"

    < "Why, what'd they do?"

    > "They used an ellipsis!"

    Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]

    #aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk

    [1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".

  15. > "They were so aggressive in their text!"

    < "Why, what'd they do?"

    > "They used an ellipsis!"

    Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]

    #aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk

    [1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".

  16. > "They were so aggressive in their text!"

    < "Why, what'd they do?"

    > "They used an ellipsis!"

    Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]

    #aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk

    [1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".

  17. @Bluedepth I use the #Megalodon app... and it counts the #ellipsis as ... three characters. Every single time.

    I'm so disappointed...

  18. And another thing . . .

    Dear #Unicode Consortium, OS vendors, and #WordProcessor devs.

    Fix the #ellipsis situation. #AP styling demands ... (three dots in a row) and #Chicago (#CMOS) . . . (three dots spaced out, but still a single character). Most narrative writers (fiction, memoir, etc.) standardize on Chicago styling.

    A character exists to support the AP styled ellipsis. For Chicago we have to type [dot] [non-breaking space] [dot] [non-breaking space] [dot]. This sucks. FIX IT!

    #amwriting

  19. @johnhowesauthor Yes. Style is important. There's the danger of making it sound cold, but remember I'm talking about narration primarily, not necessarily dialog. #Concision and #ellipsis (the lack thereof) is my chief problem, the one the agent and publisher flagged. This is where I start serious #revision, as I am right now.

  20. CW: For people who brood about punctuation.

    There's some controversy about #Ellipsis… vs #SpacedDots . . . ?

    I'm #TeamSpacedDots. . . probably.

  21. @matera
    We occasionally will just write, haha.

    Another way is to slow down the reading with a extra short paragraphs, an #ellipsis… or #mdash — though…

    They're not always successful, haha.