I'm completely OK with using the elisis socailly, but I do hope that people writing business, uh, literature can finish their thoughts.
Academically, there is the potential to use an elipsis to signal material is being left out of a quote, but that's it. Oddly, professors expect students to finish their thoughts just like I expect my coworkers to.
There is an amusing difference in how the elipsis is created in Word and how I was taught about it in a CAL Extension editing class. Word shortens the unified punctuation, while I was taught by the editor that an elipsis is period-space-period-space-period-space.
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Date: 2007-07-28 12:58 am (UTC)Academically, there is the potential to use an elipsis to signal material is being left out of a quote, but that's it. Oddly, professors expect students to finish their thoughts just like I expect my coworkers to.
There is an amusing difference in how the elipsis is created in Word and how I was taught about it in a CAL Extension editing class. Word shortens the unified punctuation, while I was taught by the editor that an elipsis is period-space-period-space-period-space.