I seldom use ellipses except at the end of a sentence or phrase, with the approximate meaning of 'etc.' or "blah blah blah," or "fill in the blank(s)"
davew On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, at 1:19 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > On 1/22/22 2:10 PM, David Eric Smith wrote: >>> trigram analysis of my writing might well be dominated by that signature… >> Nah, it’s the forward slash, marking logical or among literals. > > good catch, I experience it as a lack of commitment to a specific > term/concept/example... wanting the reader to superpose all and draw > their own consonance/dissonance therefrom. Is this perhaps what you > mean by "among literals"? > > Following NST, my ellipses tend to be more intended to indicate a pause > or to indicate that what may look like a sharp tangent is intended to be > more of a gentle segue (in my mind). Or maybe too lazy to make the > segue smooth with actual words? > > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/