From:        Ben Kosse, bmk7411@cs.rit.edu

 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--

    Oh, quit ruining all my good ideas! :)
    Actually, I knew about the three dot elipse being the middle of a
sentence and that is why I thought of that idea. But, don't people use a
three dot elipse when they're indicating that someone's been interrupted?

As I understand it (and as I've used it! <g>), three dots indicate a slow 
trailing-off, which the other speaker interrupts; a dash is used when the 
other speaker actually breaks in, shoulders his way into the conversation.



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