Timeline for Name of 3 dots to indicate a pause in speech
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| Apr 9, 2012 at 4:46 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The Wikipedia article seems to be citing this typesetting manual, which I think is wrong. Periods, commas, semicolons, etc, are all (rarely) referred to as "suspension points", as @jwpay7 says. I think there is no significant recognition for the term specifically meaning the three-dot elipsis. | |
| Apr 8, 2012 at 10:21 | vote | accept | Jez | ||
| Apr 6, 2012 at 16:15 | history | edited | user19148 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2012 at 16:04 | comment | added | user19148 | @jwpat7 - I like your comment, but Wikipedia said (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_point): "The triple-dot punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot." On the other hand, we can call the 3 dots you are referring Suspension points (note the letter "s" at the end) | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 15:07 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | @speedyGonzales, aposiopesis is abrupt, rather than trailing, and indicated by dash (–) rather than dots (…). | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 15:01 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | Carlo, you've misinterpreted what Collins says. It says that each of the three dots is called a suspension point; that is, the name of each character is suspension point, as opposed to being a full stop, or "terminal point". The set of three dots still is called an ellipsis. | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 12:16 | comment | added | Ellie K | @speedyGonzales I think you are correct. Why not answer the question? You are more correct than you realize, even! That term seems to be applicable anywhere in the sentence per the following "[Aposiopesis] can simulate the impression of a speaker so overwhelmed by emotions that he or she is unable to continue speaking. . . . It can also convey a certain pretended shyness toward obscene expressions or even an everyday casualness." (Andrea Grun-Oesterreich, "Aposiopesis." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, ed. by Thomas O. Sloane. Oxford Univ. Press, 2001) | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 12:11 | history | edited | user19148 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2012 at 11:06 | history | edited | user19148 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2012 at 11:04 | comment | added | speedyGonzales | When it is at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence, it is called aposiopesis . Example: "But I thought he was . . ." | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 10:47 | history | answered | user19148 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |