Open Letter to Our Clients:

[etherial]

Dear Madams and Sirs:

You are grown adults. Use one "?" to punctuate a sentence, two if you are truly baffled and are trying to emote. Use ellipses rarely. And for the love of God, spell your own name correctly and with capital letters!

Comments

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Ellipses are a valid form of punctuation, even in adulthood....

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Yes...I agree...Just not...you know...at the times I see them.................

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I see. :P

[tpau]

awww... but.... they denote pauses... liek when thinking...

re: they denote pauses

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Only in scriptwriting.

ellipsis
1.
a. The omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding.
b. An example of such omission.
2. A mark or series of marks ( . . . or * * * , for example) used in writing or printing to indicate an omission, especially of letters or words.

Re: re: they denote pauses

[tpau]

mm, i guess... i use the two fold. one as in previous sentence, to indicate trailing off. another is as a pause in a dialog, usually inside quote marks denotign speech.

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

Of course, doing so would be asking too much. Like me asking my students to include their full name and which course and section they're in in every email they send me. I love it when I get an email from "notaprettygirl" (part of actual student's username, and she's wrong, she is pretty) and they expect me to know who they are and which class they're in, especially at the beginning of the semester when I don't know their name yet.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

if only you could send her fashion advice without getting in trouble. PS - Serenity?