Timeline for Using ellipsis to indicate a pause in conversation
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| Dec 4, 2011 at 19:34 | comment | added | Barrie England | @Stephen: Trask limits the use of the dash to separating 'a strong interruption from the rest of the sentence'. I suppose a pause could be interpreted as a strong interruption, but I don't think that's what he had in mind. | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 19:13 | comment | added | Stephen | Instead of the ellipsis a dash could be used, but (being a member of the "Internet-savvy generation" myself) I would use an ellipsis. Well, maybe with the exception of very formal texts (if the need to show a pause in a speech would even arise there). | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 19:06 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |