Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Ode to Ellipses
Oh, dear ellipses with your three evenly spaced points, you finisher of unfinished thoughts, you beautiful little . . .
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I can't stop studying words, usage, grammar, definitions, etymologies, punctuation, style, and all things verbal. And since I'm losing my primary built-in forum for discussing such things, I need an electronic way of preserving my nerdiest diction discussions. Don't judge.
Yeah, I probably use those a little too much...
ReplyDeleteDear Wordsmith,
Why do people say movie "trailer" instead of "preview" nowadays?
And why do they call it a trailer? Wouldn't that indicate something AFTER the movie. I didn't look this up in the dictionary because I figured they would give me the definition of the kind of house some people live in.
Signed,
Curious & confused