#ellipses

Anyway, I was thinking abt trans boy dipper the other day and some other post somewhere (maybe on tumblr? Pinterest? I don't know........) made me realise how hellish it would actually be to like be in Mabel's body bc like. He can't just....... cut her hair to be more masculine and he can't just dress more masculine in her body without confusing the fuck out of people???? What a wild ride

2 period ellipses fixed to 3, realize there is a pause after "my".

The story opens with Reggie pursuing Betty, who is pursuing Archie, who is pursuing Veronica, who is pursuing Alex, who is with Jane. Jane leaves Alex for Reggie as Veronica decides to settle for Archie and Archie decided he has to settle for Betty and Betty decided she has to settle for Reggie with Alex now going after Veronica. Jughead is the dispassionate narrator.

hey everyone kiri here. I've been reading the chicago manual of style instead of writing fic again. Every time i do this I'm always shaken by the fact that the way the Chicago style and the AP style of formatting ellipses both feel So Wrong (for those wondering, AP stands for associated press and thus deals with newswriting, whereas chicago gets used in book publishing and like… everything else too sometimes)

Oh, look! I just used an ellipsis. This is a perfect segue to talk about how I format things. And also to add a "keep reading" because I'm not good at conciseness

This video is exceptionally comprehensive.

Anyways, the three-dot ellipsis tends to represent a specific lack of information, either in the form of a removed piece of quoted dialogue, or a more complete thought that drifted off partway through. The two-dot ellipsis, in contrast, almost seems to stand in for unknown information on the speaker's part, acting to connect two related but moderately disconjunct ideas in an attempt to kind of verbally sketch one's way towards the point they're grasping at while their brain fumbles for the correct verbiage or conceptual missing link. It patches over and connects incomplete thoughts, whereas the three-dot seems to appear where a more complete thought has been truncated in some way.

The two-dot is lighter-weight, suggestive of a speaker who is unwilling to fully stop their thought despite needing to split a considerably higher degree of attention between forming ideas and forming sentences than normal, or otherwise struggling to form said thoughts into a more cogent dialogue.

also, it's great for trailing off from an already complete thought, once again representing a void where the three-dot ellipsis usually stands for missing substance. At least in my neck of the online written dialect.