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In article >, says...
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> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:38:05 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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> >On 9/28/2016 7:08 PM, Bruce wrote:
> >> In article >,
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> >> says...
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:48:11 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:07:56 -0500, Sqwertz >
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:54:56 -0600, graham wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 9/27/2016 10:15 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:42:49 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> My sentence contains no grammatical errors... 'should of' is
> >>>>>>>> gramatically incorrect... actually a glaring indication that the
> >>>>>>>> poster never made it past the 5th grade.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thank you for the two examples of improper usage of ellipses. You
> >>>>>>> even managed to spell them wrong!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Wrongly?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The wrongest!
> >>>>
> >>>> INCORRECTLY, you ignoranus.
> >>>
> >>> Say the guy who can't even spell three dots correctly. Proper
> >>> ellipses have a single space on each side of each dot.
> >>
> >> lol, nonsense.
> >>

> >
> >Nope, true
> >
www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html
> >Ellipses. An ellipsis is a set of three periods ( . . . ) indicating an
> >omission. Each period should have a single space on either side, except
> >when adjacent to a quotation mark, in which case there should be no space.

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>
> The 'rules' of proper grammar etc. do vary depending where you are.


True. Americans tend to use 2 blank spaces between sentences. French
tend to put a blank space before an exclamation mark or a question mark.
Etc.