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Old Mar 10, 2008, 01:58 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Losing faith

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Originally Posted by atomik_sprout View Post
Actually, no, it's not. If that were the case, we'd all be taking quite a while to read books. There's a difference between a pause and a line break. Line breaks are just simple formatting--y'know; makin' the text look pretty on paper--and elipses are pauses in speech/text.

For example:
"Can I borrow a dollar?" Reply#1: "Hmm, NO!" Reply#2: "Hmm... NO!"

Which one actually looks like the person who responded actually put thought in to his/her decision? Which one would you think has a pause in it? It's all about grammar, my friend.

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jeeze and actually the [...] means a continuence!
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