Connecting the Dots

Granta ^ | November 12, 2025 | Madeline Cash

[Redcitizen]

‘ . . .’

[PAR35]

My current workplace published a style guide that banned their use...

Yep, they are a bunch of young folks in their 40s and 50s....

[The Duke]

And, your point is ... (?)

[Buttons12]

Sometimes it’s to elicit a thoughtful response or to imply something. “Feel free to think what I would rather not say.”

I like indirection, so I like ellipsis. It’s useful when you write dialogue, too.

[Celerity]

This entire article is just some dipstick complaining about people who don’t act just like him

[Buttons12]

Style guide? I would burn that in public.

[Tired of Taxes]

Hmmm... interesting. I never noticed that younger people don’t use ellipses.

[John Milner]

I heard they don’t even like periods. So imagine how triggered 3 of them would make ‘em!

[gundog]

[Flycatcher]

This entire article is just some dipstick complaining about people who don’t act just like him

It’s a girl, so…

[Tired of Taxes]

Good point... So many of them don’t seem to like punctuation at all.

[imardmd1]

And, your point is . . . ?()

. . . that an ellipse is either an unfinished thought or a squashed circle

[skr]

An ellipses isn’t what she thinks it is, but an ellipsis is. I was wondering what a geometric shape had to do with texting. I had to look it up, since this was the first time I’d heard that the three dot pause had an actual term. I probably should’ve known that, since I wasn’t too bad at grammar back in school, but no one was texting on the mainframe computer in the freezing computer lab back then.

[Ezekiel]

To end this piece conclusively, to not have written the ellipses of essays, I texted my mother. Why, I asked, do you do this? She responded: ‘I don’t know . . .’

Gee, I was hoping that the author was named Margo.

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Are you in a good mood? I hope so:

I love the ellipsis. I've discovered that there's so much in there.

So many foundational menu items to choose from.

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S Sierra

"I am operating astern propulsion."[b]

[b] Also signallable on a ship's whistle using Morse code.

Meaning when used with numeric complements -- Speed (velocity) in knots

sierra: Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra (“saw”), referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.

... is also Morse for the letter shin ש, and in the Hebrew spelling alphabet, shin is for shamir.

The visual puns are most excellent especially because an ellipsis is used to indicate that something has gone missing from the text. In Navy lingo, the analog is when a sailor goes missing -- declared UA for "unauthorized absence"

 

JERUSALEM

JERUALEM

Wal-Mart and Amazon sell these blue boxes in packs of 50:

צדקה

(= 199, makom echad, one place -- Gen 1:9)

 

534. THE DESCENT OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM

One of the key events of the messianic era will be the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. In this myth the problem of rebuilding the Temple is solved by having the heavenly Jerusalem -- including the heavenly Temple -- descend to earth and settle on the tops of four (or in some versions, three) mountains.

536. THE CENTER OF THE WORLD

628. THE CAPTIVE MESSIAH

For many generations the Messiah has sat captive, chained with golden chains before the Throne of Glory. Elijah has tried to release him many times, but he has never succeeded.

So Elijah descends to earth and explains that in order to break the chains of the Messiah, he needs a magic saw whose teeth are the deeds of Israel. Every deed adds a tooth to this saw, but every sin takes one away. When there are twice as many good deeds as there are sins, then the saw can be used. That is why it is said that the Messiah will not come until we bring him.

Tree of Souls

... (S, ש) is a sierra is a magic saw:

UA

"I am operating astern propulsion." ~ Jonah (the dove who went UA)

(When there are twice as many sins as there are good deeds, then the saw can be used. That is why it is said that the Messiah will not come until we bring him.)

Thus Jerusalem is the navel of the world, and its core is the altar of the Holy Temple,
built upon the Foundation Stone, which forms the foundation of the world...

Chesed - The World is Built on Kindness

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2026
HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS

Boston (= 133): Trimountaine aka The City on a Hill and

The code Alt + 0133 on a Windows computer inserts an ellipsis character. The ellipsis character is U+2026 in Unicode and can be typed by holding the Alt key and using the numeric keypad to type 0133.

[Ezekiel]

To add just a little more to connect those dots (ALT 0133) —

534. THE DESCENT OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM

Some say that in the future God will cause the Jerusalem on high to descend from heaven fully built, and will set it on the tops of four mountains: Mount Sinai, Mount Tabor, Mount Carmel, and Mount Hermon.

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This image, in itself, is quite beautiful, with the ethereal Jerusalem appearing as if in a vision, balanced on the tops of four key mountains in Jewish history.

In some versions, however, it sits on the top of only the first three mountains listed, excluding Mount Hermon.

Psalm 133

1 A Song of Ascents; of David.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard; even Aaron’s beard, that cometh down upon the collar of his garments;

3 Like the dew of Hermon, that cometh down upon the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for ever.

[Bigg Red]

Cute. Enjoyed reading this. Have to admit to sometimes being guilty. Yes, I am a Boomer. But my husband who is pre-Boomer, is an ardent ellipsis abuser.

[Nervous Tick]

Ping................

:-)

[DouglasKC]

I use it all the time. I’m 64...

[trebb]

Sounds like spy jargon......