Why can people not use punctuation?!?!?!

[TheAuldGrump]

I don't know if your last ellipsis is meant to be ironic or not, but you know that there are three dots and not four, right...

An ellipses midsentence has... three dots. While one at the end of a sentence is followed by a period, so very strange.... (See Elements of Style by Strunk & White.)

I hardly ever bother with the period following a sentence ending ellipsis myself, but it is supposed to be there. Given time it will likely be discontinued.

The Auld Grump

 

[glass]

I don't know if your last ellipsis is meant to be ironic or not,

The first rule of the internet: Any post pointing out spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors will include at least one of its own.

but you know that there are three dots and not four, right...

Four, at the end of a sentance, becasue of the full stop.


glass.

 

[glass]

I hardly ever bother with the period following a sentence ending ellipsis myself, but it is supposed to be there. Given time it will likely be discontinued.

I believe it is currently considered optional. I included it because I was trying to be smart, and if I hadn't miss-spelled 'ellipsis', I might have succeded.


glass.

 

[Umbran]

the amount of people refusing to put quotes around speech is staggering.

And the number of people who think humans are measured in tablespoons is also staggering.

(Which is to say, we all occasionally reside in an abode constructed of transparent amorphous solids.)

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

And the number of people who think humans are measured in tablespoons is also staggering.

It's not a lot of people making grammatical mistakes, it's just one really big guy.

 

[hong]

And the number of people who think humans are measured in tablespoons is also staggering.

(Which is to say, we all occasionally reside in an abode constructed of transparent amorphous solids.)

Says you. ***I*** happen to live in a yellow submarine.


Hong "or is that diaglo - in bed?" Ooi

 

[Crothian]

I don't know if your last ellipsis is meant to be ironic or not, but you know that there are three dots and not four, right...

/Picard

"I see four dots!"

 

[diaglo]

/Picard

"I see four dots!"

Shaka...

when the walls fell

 

[Hypersmurf]

(Which is to say, we all occasionally reside in an abode constructed of transparent amorphous solids.)

Some less occasionally than others

-Hyp.

 

[ssampier]

"I have no idea," says the pig.