[bksvol-discuss] Re: The ellipsis at end of sentence?
- From: "Martha Rafter" <mlhr@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:02:13 -0400
Hi,
Roger, this does happen ... that is, a sentence with a period followed by an
ellipsis. It might happen more in British English but I am coming across it
frequently lately. The first time I saw it, I asked Mayrie, who told me to
punctuate it this way:
“Blah blah blah period space dot dot dot quotation mark
Netta, hope this helps!
Marty
From: Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:39 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The ellipsis at end of sentence?
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Like I said, the ellipsis should be treated like a word. If you end a sentence
with a period and then space and add an ellipsis with a quotation mark after it
you have a word sitting there by itself after the period. I can think of no
grammatical construction in which this would make sense. It would be like
saying this. "Here is the cat in the. hat" The sentence has ended and the word
hat sits there by itself with no period after it and with no punctuation other
than the quotation mark. The ellipsis, rather indicates that the sentence is
incomplete. That is, something has been removed from the end or the sentence
has just trailed off. In that case, the sentence should read like this. "Here
is the cat in the hat ...." After the final word there is a space and then
there is the ellipsis being treated as another word and then without a space
there is a period just like it appears after the last word of a sentence no
matter what the word is and then without any more spaces there is the quotation
mark to indicate the end of the sentence.
On 4/18/2013 9:06 AM, Martha Rafter wrote:
This is not correct. If there are four dots, it is a period and then an
elipsis. This way:
It ought to be “The cat in the hat period space dot dot dot quotation mark
If no quotation mark then a space
From: Dornetta
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:19 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The ellipsis at end of sentence?
Hey Sandy;
The way you said it makes sense to me and like Reggie, I had the same
question when I posted this yesterday, I think (Reggie just asked it better
than I did). But Roger said it is wrong. In my work, the sentence just has the
ellipses and the period after it, like this:
The cat in the hat . . . . (dot space dot space dot space period, at least
this is what I'm assuming since each dot is separated by a space)
So how should this be done?
What I did was this:
The cat in the hat... . (dot, dot, dot, space, period)
Confusing. I just want to make that it reads correctly in Braille...help! I'm
getting confused again *bummer*
Netta
"Until lions tell their tale, the story of the hunt will always glorify the
hunter."-African Proverb
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