[FFML] Question about how to keep the text as is after submitted

[aleh at aol.com]

"Bla bla . . . bla." is technically correct, although I find it 
annoying on a personal level. "Bla bla ... bla." is also technically 
correct (and preferred by the Capital Community College and Webster 
guides), but I also find that annoying; both forms are common to 
/typing/ guides more than proper style guides and are legacies of 
certain quirks of old typewriters.

"Bla bla...bla.", as you're suggesting, is apparently a rather new 
thing -- the guides that I use mostly use "Bla bla... bla."

I suspect it has to do with the fact that half of them predate the Cold 
War.


-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net>
To: ffml at chez-vrolet.net
Sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 2:00 pm
Subject: Re: [FFML] Question about how to keep the text as is after 
submitted



--- On Mon, 9/15/08, aleh at aol.com <aleh at aol.com> wrote:
> While most of your suggestions and comments are accurate and correct,
> the grammatical statement about ellipses is not. A space is
> grammatically required following one, especially if it's in the middle
> of a sentence.

Only if you have spaces between the dots as well (which is how most 
style
guides I have read prefer it).  For example:

"Bla bla . . . bla."

Or:

"Bla bla...bla."

But not:

"Bla bla... bla."

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