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An elliptical approach to …

April 15, 2010

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Recently I’ve been involved in an online discussion concerning the use of ellipses1. Ellipses, according to any kind of professional standard, are the three little dots that replace missing words in quoted material. Despite the preponderance of contrary evidence available on the Internet, ellipses are not meant as replacements for the comma, period, dash, and every […]