On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Ben Kosse wrote:
I saw some of the replies asking about the sudden cutoffs of words, and
your explanation, so I knew what that was when I saw it. But I think
that technique worked well. It might be helped, as someone suggested, by
making it clear that all those scenes were happening at the same time.
I see what he was trying to do, but maybe just adding "..." (has to be
three dots, I think) at the end of the halfway finished word might help us
to see that it was intentional.
The only problem with the ellipse, though, is that it usually has the
connotation of a slow trailing off, rather than a sudden stopping. (And
btw, it's 3 dots if it's in the middle of a sentence and 4 at the end of
a sentence.)
Maybe a hyphen--
-joyce, Disciple of Kasumi
Joey-kun no iinazuke!