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4 unusual facts about Ellipsis


Ellipsis

For example, when Count Dracula says "I never drink . . . wine"; the implication is that he does drink something else.

Unicode recognizes a series of three period characters (U+002E) as compatibility equivalent (though not canonical) to the horizontal ellipsis character.

Herb Caen, Pulitzer-prize-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, became famous for his "Three-dot journalism".

Three dots

Ellipsis (... or . . .), indicates an intentional omission of a word


Similar

ellipsis | Ellipsis |

Dash

Similarly, it can be used instead of an ellipsis to indicate aposiopesis, the rhetorical device by which a sentence is stopped short not because of interruption but because the speaker is too emotional to continue, such as Darth Vader's line "I sense something; a presence I've not felt since—" in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Louis Sarno

He "combined recordings of Bayakan music with sounds of their surrounding environment into a two-CD/book package entitled Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the BaBenzl Pygmies (Ellipsis Arts)."

Mulebone

They were featured, along with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Maria Muldaur and David Grisman on the award winning Ellipsis Arts

Star Wars opening crawl

Each piece of scrolling text ends with a four-dot ellipsis, except for Return of the Jedi which has a three-dot ellipsis.


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