Now you are introducing research - that kills all the fun . . . (oops ,
, , )
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On 10/6/2019 10:39 PM, Tex wrote:
Just for additional info on the subject:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/05/linguist-gretchen-mcculloch-interview-because-internet-book
“…I’ve been spending a fair bit of time recently with the comma
ellipsis, which is three commas (,,,) instead of dot-dot-dot. I’ve
been looking at it for over a year and I’m still figuring out what’s
going on there. There seems to be something but possibly several
somethings.
One use is by older people who, in some cases where they would use the
classic ellipsis, use commas instead. It’s not quite clear if that’s a
typo in some cases, but it seems to be more systematic than that.
Maybe they’re preferring the comma because it’s a little bit easier to
see if you’re on the older side, and your vision is not what it once
was. Or maybe they just see the two as equivalent. It then seems to
have jumped the shark into parody form. There’s a Facebook group in
which younger people pretend to be to be baby boomers, and one of the
features people use there is this comma ellipsis. And then in some
circles there also seems to be a use of comma ellipses that is very,
very heavily ironic. But what exactly the nature is of that heavy
irony is still something that I’m working on figuring out….”
*From:*Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] *On Behalf Of
*Asmus Freytag via Unicode
*Sent:* Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:21 PM
*To:* unicode@unicode.org
*Subject:* Re: comma ellipses
On 10/6/2019 8:21 PM, Garth Wallace via Unicode wrote:
It’s deliberately incorrect for humorous effect. It gets used, but
making it “official” would almost defeat the purpose.
Well then it should encode a "typographically incorrect" comma ellipsis :)
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On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 5:02 PM Asmus Freytag via Unicode
<unicode@unicode.org <mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote:
On 10/6/2019 4:05 PM, Tex via Unicode wrote:
Now that comma ellipses (,,,) are a thing (at least on
social media) do we need a character proposal?
Asking for a friend,,, J
tex
I thought the main reason we ended up with the period (dot)
one is because it was originally needed for CJK-style fixed
grid layout purposes. But It could be wrong.
What's the current status for 3-dot ellipsis. Does it get
used? Do we have autocorrect for it? If so, that would argue
that implementers have settled and any derivative usage
(comma) should be kept compatible.
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