when you end a sentence with both a period and an ellipsis,
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looks like exactly one person agrees with us on this
who are you, mystery person
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@Felthry we're not them, but looking at the Wikipedia page, we did see a circumstance in which we'd put the period first? and that is when the ellipsis represents omitted sentences, not a trailing-off at the end of one sentence
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@packbat It's not like it really matters which of the four identical dots counts as the period, though!
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@Felthry that's what made it such a cool poll question, though? because it doesn't matter and yet we had an immediate and strong opinion.
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@packbat having strong opinions on inconsequential things is an interesting phenomenon
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@packbat makes you kind of wonder where the opinion comes from
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@Felthry I mean, our logic is that [...] means trailing-off and [.] means ending an utterance - and you can't trail off after you've already stopped? So for us, it's "Words words words[trailing off][but that's an ending, not an unfinished space]", which is ellipsis-period.
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@Felthry ...that's /fascinating!/ we can't even imagine it that way, we're gonna have to sit with that or something to figure out how to understand that
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