Users discuss the grammatical name for ellipses and share observations about different languages, with someone noting French has a specific word for the gap between a bed and wall.
I like to write colloquially...and I like to string my thoughts together with these little...dots...I know they have a name but I forget it. I do however like gooood spellingification. A good rule to follow is ...if you don't know how to spell a word you should look it up (thereby improving your vocabulary) or substitute a word you do know how to spell.
To be fair...ebonics notwithstanding...I consider that any form of writing which successfully conveys the writers point is good enough.
LordFlesh" on Thu, Dec 18 Wrote:
... The funny looking three dots are ellipses. I think.
You English-speaking people are so funny. In Norway, they're just called "three dots" or, "dot, dot, dot". Gahd! I wish English was MY language.
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Mpeller wrote in article ...
Yep, We have a lot of words for things. But the French; now there's a language. I wish French were my (first) language. How many of you know the French have a word for the space between a bed and the wall when the bed is up close to but not touching the wall. Notwithstanding our paranoid Anglophone Quebec poster - anyone know what it is?
The News Guy (Mike) wrote in article ...
***SNIP***
Not sure about the French word for it, but in Italian it's called a dona-falla-you-ass-inna-da-cracka-betweena-da-bed-anna-da-wall
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