Oh, it has a name? Guess so! I’m going to jfgi right now
Okay I just jfgi’d it, which makes me now wonder when a seperation of parts of a sentence (comma) becomes a pause (ellpisis). There’s gotta be be a difference between the two but I’m not convinced most people understand that when they put … in the middle of a sentence
An ellipsis is longer and can be used in more places. For example, the start of a sentence, often indicating a tone. You can also throw them basically wherever, mid-sentence, whereas commas have specific rules.
This is like asking why some people underline words in the middle of a sentence.
Do you think in this example the elipsis should’ve been a comma instead, or it works just fine the way it is?
I couldn’t help but read it as she lost track of what she was talking about mid sentence, then finally after the fog lifted, remembered the rest of what she was saying.
And using three periods instead of one comma
… you mean an ellipsis?
Oh, it has a name? Guess so! I’m going to jfgi right now
Okay I just jfgi’d it, which makes me now wonder when a seperation of parts of a sentence (comma) becomes a pause (ellpisis). There’s gotta be be a difference between the two but I’m not convinced most people understand that when they put … in the middle of a sentence
An ellipsis is longer and can be used in more places. For example, the start of a sentence, often indicating a tone. You can also throw them basically wherever, mid-sentence, whereas commas have specific rules.
This is like asking why some people underline words in the middle of a sentence.
Do you think in this example the elipsis should’ve been a comma instead, or it works just fine the way it is?
I couldn’t help but read it as she lost track of what she was talking about mid sentence, then finally after the fog lifted, remembered the rest of what she was saying.