Consciously I just punctuate where it looks like it needs it. The same way I spell.
Sounds familiar; I've absorbed a lot of my writing style from what I've read, I suspect. And still tend to let what I'm reading influence how I write, which can be problematic when I've been reading, say, C. J. Cherryh.
Sorry. I love ending ellipses. They sound like a voice trailing off.
Which is exactly why I loathe their abuse. It's a tone of writing I associate with some people I don't like to hang out with, for their good and mine. (Have you ever found yourself talking louder and louder, and faster and faster, in a desperate attempt to get a non-monotone reaction from someone? Like I said, there are people I'm not hanging with for everyone's good.)
Trailing ellipses have their niche, but that niche isn't as large as some people seem to think. And I'm really one to talk; my grammatical quirk this month seems to be leading ellipses. As in, "...yeah, bad image, let's not do that." So I should probably calm down about other people's erratic punctuation.
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Date: 2006-07-17 05:09 pm (UTC)Sounds familiar; I've absorbed a lot of my writing style from what I've read, I suspect. And still tend to let what I'm reading influence how I write, which can be problematic when I've been reading, say, C. J. Cherryh.
Sorry. I love ending ellipses. They sound like a voice trailing off.
Which is exactly why I loathe their abuse. It's a tone of writing I associate with some people I don't like to hang out with, for their good and mine. (Have you ever found yourself talking louder and louder, and faster and faster, in a desperate attempt to get a non-monotone reaction from someone? Like I said, there are people I'm not hanging with for everyone's good.)
Trailing ellipses have their niche, but that niche isn't as large as some people seem to think. And I'm really one to talk; my grammatical quirk this month seems to be leading ellipses. As in, "...yeah, bad image, let's not do that." So I should probably calm down about other people's erratic punctuation.