the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:: "@noiob we certainly don't use the unicode ellipsi…" - Awoo Space

Dec 20, 2021, 04:04

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

when you end a sentence with both a period and an ellipsis,
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66% the first three dots are the ellipsis and the last one is the period
8% the first dot is the period and then the last three are the ellipsis
25% the period goes in the middle somehow???

Dec 20, 2021, 04:17

shork @noiob@awoo.space

@Felthry I don't do that, three dots are enough to end a sentence with

but also an ellipsis is a single Unicode character (…) so in digital text it should be unambiguous

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@noiob we certainly don't use the unicode ellipsis, just three periods

and ending a sentence is always four periods for us
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Dec 20, 2021, 04:18 · · · ·

Dec 20, 2021, 04:23

shork @noiob@awoo.space

@Felthry in German an ellipsis does double duty ending the sentence and showing something was left out

Dec 20, 2021, 04:24

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@noiob i don't think that's necessarily a german vs english thing as much as just, some people do four dots and some do three
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Dec 20, 2021, 04:26

shork @noiob@awoo.space

@Felthry well, either way three dots are not the same as an ellipsis, from a typesetting perspective

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