Timeline for Using ellipsis to indicate a pause in conversation
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| Dec 4, 2011 at 22:42 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I cannot tell a lie. I'd never heard of that American style guide before I came to ELU, and for weeks I always thought of the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor meaning whenever I saw CMOS written here. | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 22:38 | comment | added | Matt Ball | Your answer was easy enough to read, and I appreciate brevity. It's just that, with my background, CMOS means something a bit different. | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 22:35 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | If I hadn't seen Bjorn's answer pop up before I finished writing, I would have spelt out CMOS at least once. Anyway, I did at least write Grammar Girl in full for the last para, in case any readers might have forgotten the original reference by then. Sometimes it's a job to know whether you're helping or hindering clarity by using an acronym, but I used to do it a lot in technical writing just to keep the word count down. | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 22:28 | comment | added | Matt Ball |
CNMA (Clearly, Needs More Acronyms) :P
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| Dec 4, 2011 at 18:35 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |