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#27 Mar 13 2009 at 6:21 AM Rating: Good
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Is there a proper number of periods to use to create an effective ellipse?...I usually go with three...sometimes though, more or less than that seems appropriate......but I don't really know why.
Yeah, it's all about how it scans in my head, and that can be a really contextual thing. As in, individually, sentence by sentence.

I really wanted to write "Dear God, send more conservatives than Gbaji, Varrus, and Gwyn" since that's how it scanned well in my head.

But I was frightened of the thread just becoming a short sharp fight about correct comma usage, so I left out the comma before the "and".

An ellipse is an oval. A singular ellipses is an ellipsis.

Three shall be the number of dots in an ellipsis, and the number of the dots in an ellipsis shall be three.

The comma before the "and" in a list is called an Oxford comma. Style manuals disagree on whether or not to use it. I despise the practice of omitting it.

Your final period should go inside the quotation marks.
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#28 Mar 13 2009 at 6:21 AM Rating: Excellent
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Three periods in mid-sentence, four at the end of a sentence. Generally speaking ellipses are used to indicate text elided from a quote.

Ari's last qualm was an example of the Oxford comma, a subject of much heated debate.

Edit: Damn you, Tricksybeck.



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#29 Mar 13 2009 at 6:28 AM Rating: Decent
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Now, I can very well be masochistic with a lot of things.. but there are just some things you don't mess with.
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#30 Mar 13 2009 at 6:28 AM Rating: Good
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Your final period should go inside the quotation marks.

Thanks for all the other info, I believe it. But the way I was taught at uni, a final period goes inside quotation marks IF there is an entire sentence inside the quotation marks. If it's an incomplete sentence inside quotation marks, then the final period is left outside, as it "belongs" to the entire sentence as a whole. Same with parentheses.
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#31 Mar 13 2009 at 6:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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If there's an entire sentence or if you're quoting enough to imply the rest of the sentence which is being elided, the period goes inside the quotes.

It's a judgment call, really, as to whether you intended to quote just half of the sentence, or to call to mind the whole thing.
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#32Azrielis, Posted: Mar 13 2009 at 6:46 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) See! See!^ Poeple are just wrong! Let hook your junk up to a car batery and let me start the car...see if you think it's a good idea. I can see the headlines now. "Man kills himself with Sex Toy/Electrocontraceptive/S&M device trying to Get Off/Sterilize/Get Off" Newz at 11! WTF Over? Ponders running into the hills and living like a hermit....THESE PEOPLE ARE F**KING NUTZ!!!!
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#34 Mar 13 2009 at 7:00 AM Rating: Excellent
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+1 (because I didn't mean to post anything)

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ZAMmen, HOW far would you go for condomless contraception?


I'd go as far as the ****.
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#36 Mar 13 2009 at 7:56 AM Rating: Good
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Ok... does this even work? It sounds like a crank article from the Onion or something. Plus the fact that this is the first time I've ever heard of anything like this AND it's in Serbia? I don't know. Way too sketchy.
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#37 Mar 13 2009 at 8:00 AM Rating: Excellent
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What if it's not a clinic at all, and some dude just likes zapping strangers' nuts?
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#38 Mar 13 2009 at 8:26 AM Rating: Decent
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Lastly, seems like it would be easy enough to make a Home Ball-Shocking devise to save time and money.


See! See!^ Poeple are just wrong! Let hook your junk up to a car batery and let me start the car...see if you think it's a good idea. I can see the headlines now. "Man kills himself with Sex Toy/Electrocontraceptive/S&M device trying to Get Off/Sterilize/Get Off" Newz at 11! WTF Over? Ponders running into the hills and living like a hermit....THESE PEOPLE ARE F**KING NUTZ!!!!
Ok, I'm not advocating for men to shock their nuts...for any particular reason. Just sayin' if you're gonna do it anyways, it would probably be not-too-hard of a thing to reproduce at home.
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Just sayin' if you're gonna do it anyways, it would probably be not-too-hard of a thing to reproduce at home.


Ever get a tattoo? The regulator they hook up to the iron would work quite well.
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#40 Mar 13 2009 at 8:47 AM Rating: Decent
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The comma before the "and" in a list is called an Oxford comma. Style manuals disagree on whether or not to use it. I despise the practice of omitting it.


Looks like there's one more person to add to my list of people to be put against the wall come the revolution.

I'm too poor to finance such a coup at the moment, however. I just payed Victoria and it was very expensive. Still, if you want to effect change you have to be willing to spend money.
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#42 Mar 13 2009 at 8:59 AM Rating: Good
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The comma before the "and" in a list is called an Oxford comma. Style manuals disagree on whether or not to use it. I despise the practice of omitting it.


Looks like there's one more person to add to my list of people to be put against the wall come the revolution.

The posting crush is over.
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#43 Mar 13 2009 at 9:06 AM Rating: Decent
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But just begun, the posting war has.
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#44 Mar 13 2009 at 9:08 AM Rating: Good
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But just begun, the posting war has.

Pff, I don't do war, baby. I make love.
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#45 Mar 13 2009 at 9:11 AM Rating: Decent
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Aripyanfar wrote:
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But just begun, the posting war has.

Pff, I don't do war, baby. I make love.


Well, if you like...

Yeah, I only use three periods in an elipsis ending a sentence. I'm a maverick grammarian.

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#46 Mar 13 2009 at 9:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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Kavekk wrote:
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But just begun, the posting war has.

Pff, I don't do war, baby. I make love.


Well, if you like...

Yeah, I only use three periods in an elipsis ending a sentence. I'm a maverick grammarian.

Excellent. Let me get out the electrodes.
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#47 Mar 13 2009 at 9:31 AM Rating: Good
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This won't stop the AIDS.


It's a contraceptive, dumbass.




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At what point did this sound like a good idea....anyone? If you get off on it...ok I guess you sick ***....but to you semi-normal humans.....really?....Really Really? Hook electrodes to muh junk and zap them.....VOLUNTARILY?!? ARE YOU NUTZ!!!! Should be slapped for even thinking of that! MY God! What are people thinking?!?! Am I the only one that sees the wrongness of this?!? Or am I giving the population at large too much credit. Sometimes I think monkeys are smarter than us. Thank God this is prevent them from spilling thier gentetic sewage into the gene pool! Maybe the Dr. was thinking ahead..."Anyone who answers the add for test subject needs to be sterilized" BLOODY F-TARDS!!!!!

Thought I would share muh feelings

Have a good one:)


Don't be stupid. I'm sure there's more scientific research behind it and not just some frat boys accidentally stumbling upon the discovery by shocking each others' junk.
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#48 Mar 13 2009 at 9:37 AM Rating: Good
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Oh yeah, I also want to denounce and reject the "Zam" moniker!

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#49 Mar 13 2009 at 9:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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The comma before the "and" in a list is called an Oxford comma. Style manuals disagree on whether or not to use it. I despise the practice of omitting it.


**** Oxford Commas. I had to write a perl module to convert text into that format, when somebody got a bug up their butt about it.
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#50 Mar 13 2009 at 9:43 AM Rating: Excellent
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Danalog the Former Programmer wrote:
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The comma before the "and" in a list is called an Oxford comma. Style manuals disagree on whether or not to use it. I despise the practice of omitting it.


@#%^ Oxford Commas. I had to write a perl module to convert text into that format, when somebody got a bug up their butt about it.


Ahh, the cymballic clash of tradition and technology.

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Excellent. Let me get out the electrodes.


Great. I'll set up the pillory.
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