... or . . .

[thirtythree]

Hm?

 

[Thraxen]

No spaces.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
No spaces.

...

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: Thraxen
No spaces.

...

 

[JetsFanatic]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
No spaces.

 

[aircooled]

...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Yes spaces.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
No spaces.

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Yes spaces.

Your sig brings up another question... should there be spaces on the sides of em dashes? My professor (just moved here from New Zealand) marked my paper wrong for not having them, but I've never encountered any problems in the past.

 

[cirthix]

Originally posted by: aircooled
...

 

[Cook1]

Originally posted by: cirthix

Originally posted by: aircooled
...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: thirtythree

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Yes spaces.

Your sig brings up another question... should there be spaces on the sides of em dashes? My professor (just moved here from New Zealand) marked my paper wrong for not having them, but I've never encountered any problems in the past.

No clue. I copied that off a website instead of out of the comic book.

 

[Legendary]

...

 

[johnjbruin]

...

Where is the poll?

 

[BlamoHammer]

Yes there should be spaces.

 

[DaFinn]

Hmm... I'm sure it either... or . . .

-Ace of Spaces

 

[n0cmonkey]

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm

EDIT: Of course, I can't see anywhere it says if there should be spaces between the .s or not.

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm

EDIT: Of course, I can't see anywhere it says if there should be spaces between the .s or not.

They use spaces on both sides of the ellipsis though. Is that necessarily the correct way?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: thirtythree

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm

EDIT: Of course, I can't see anywhere it says if there should be spaces between the .s or not.

They use spaces on both sides of the ellipsis though. Is that necessarily the correct way?

Nope, everyone can be wrong. Even .edus.

 

[Quasmo]

I believe it all depends on context. If I'm gonna write something that need a little more suspense I'm gonna write . . . but if I'm looking for a follow up that I didn't get or if I'm saying something quick... I'll write "...", got it?

 

[TitanDiddly]

...

 

[mugs]

Just use the elipsis character. If you type three periods in a row in MS Word, it'll automatically turn them into a single-character elipsis that looks like three periods with more space between them, but less space than if you actually put a space between each one. You could also use the character map program that comes with windows to copy/paste it into the program you're using.

? <- Try to highlight each individual period - you can't, it's one character.
... <- Without spaces
. . . <- With spaces



I've always learned that you need a space on either side of an em-dash.

 

[Toki]

i never put spaces, but i dont think there is any technically right way

 

[PricklyPete]

no spaces

 

[frodrick]

the ellipsis is used correctly perhaps 1% (an obviously made up statistic) of the time so who cares if you corrupt its proper usage any more by adding spaces or not?