Subject: Re: [FFML] [comment on fanfic] Re: Smoke and Mirrors
From: Ben Kosse
Date: 5/1/1996, 4:15 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

    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.
     I think it's a matter of author's taste, but seeing how more people
here view elipses as a slow trailing off, I'll be using dashes to indicate
abrupt change in thought from now on.
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