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My use of an ellipsis was to indicate that I cut some material from the quote. I do not understand why you quoted "..." My comment had to do with the reason why
by dfc 13y ago
My use of an ellipsis was to indicate that I cut some material from the quote. I do not understand why you quoted "..." My comment had to do with the reason why it is the number one downloaded paper.
- hga 13y ago"..." is a convention I first found in manga, which indicates a character has no (immediate) verbal reply to what was just previously said or happened.
- dfc 13y agoI'm confused, you have a verbal reply right below the manga ellipsis.
- hga 13y agoI had no immediate verbal reply....
- dfc 13y agoNow that you updated the definition it makes a little more sense, but not a lot more since HN is not a creative writing assignment. It was unclear given your initial reply: "..." would be a quote, albeit an entirely weird one. "..." is a convention I first found in manga, which indicates a character has no verbal reply to what was previously just said.
- hga 13y agoYeah, my initial reply failed in a sense because there's no distinction between italicized and plain periods. The first that you quote above was entered as double quote star dot dot dot star double quote, but rendered the same as the second without the stars (asterisks).