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An ellipsis font character, rarely used due to the quicker way of writing ... or . . .
… will sometimes look exactly like ... or it will appear on the center instead of the bottom. Hmmm… what should I do?
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’Tis a horizontal ellipsis. Often used at the end of a body of quoted text to designated the trailing-off end (where the relevant part stops), or sometimes to represent something in the middle which had been ommited in-order to crop-down, shorten, the text formerly containing a few ‘filler’ words. Incorrectly, instead the manual tripple-dot{...} which consumes more width might proceed or take the place of such excerpted text; the reason that the official horizontal ellpisis{…} is correct in the case of quoting whereas the tripple-dot{...} is not.. is that the person whose words were pulled may actually *have* had a clause in it, which should be represented rather by three manual dots{...}, so as to elminate any confusion one should experience when reading, as well as protect one's piece from more- conceivably possible plagiarism.
See also: ..., .., . . ., ], comma\,, ampersand\& When the mayor declared that the town was making ‘noteworthy improvements’ after having said that if we don’t “take care of our deficit problem … within two weeks, then we’ll have to {vote on} some services to deduct or taxes to add,…” less than a month ago, many residents hoorayed joyously.
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The correct way to say ... . To say this, hold ALT and press 0133. Smith: Johnson! Why are you still here? I thought I fired you 2 weeks ago!?
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