[FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly

[Prof David West]

I seldom use ellipses except at the end of a sentence or phrase, with the approximate meaning of 'etc.' or "blah blah blah," or "fill in the blank(s)"

davew


On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, at 1:19 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> On 1/22/22 2:10 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
>>> trigram analysis of my writing might well be dominated by that signature…
>> Nah, it’s the forward slash, marking logical or among literals.
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> good catch, I experience it as a lack of commitment to a specific 
> term/concept/example... wanting the reader to superpose all and draw 
> their own consonance/dissonance therefrom.  Is this perhaps what you 
> mean by "among literals"?
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> Following NST, my ellipses tend to be more intended to indicate a pause 
> or to indicate that what may look like a sharp tangent is intended to be 
> more of a gentle segue (in my mind).   Or maybe too lazy to make the 
> segue smooth with actual words?
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