• CoolMatt
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    8 months ago

    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

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      8 months ago

      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.

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        8 months ago

        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.