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To: null and void; NicknamedBob

Hi Nully,
That bit of usage i’m clear on, after reading a book, the problem is:
Can you follow it with a (.)Full-stop/Period.
Or is that just scruffy and bad Punctuation.
What Bob said made perfect sense, but is (Data)(...)(.)a legal move?
‘All text removed’ up to a ‘Full-stop’ just looks odd.
Just wanting to get it right and remove this niggling doubt from my head.


4,310 posted on 05/28/2013 8:51:34 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. This is not the post you are looking for ....move along now....)
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To: moose07
When I have seen that (....) in print, in books or newspapers, the period is usually in bold. That indicates the end of the thought that is quoted or surmised.
4,318 posted on 05/28/2013 9:43:22 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless.)
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To: moose07; NicknamedBob

NicknamedBob’s explanation and mine are not incompatible.

I’m not certain of the finer points of usage, but I customarily use it at the end of a post to indicate things unsaid and/or thoughts to be completed by the reader or simply trailing off...


4,320 posted on 05/28/2013 11:16:27 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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