Correct Punctuation

SHOUT OUT: HAPPY 20TH YE WON! WHOO HOO!! and guess what! it's the 6th of the 6th of the 6th... i mean 060606 or... 666! bahaha! nah, dont be superstious! i wish a happy birthday and all your wishes will so fully come true!

im currently taking a break from typing up notes for property law. which topic am i doing? i'm doing indefeasibility and exceptions.

so im taking a break and surfing on people's blog when i have realised something that i was meant to say A LONG TIME AGO. it is something that i believe was accidentally left off my zero tolerance list.

Ellipses are THREE fullstops NOT TWO.

i just cannot stand the amount of people who use two fullstops to indicate the trailing off when the rule is to use three. i was taught that ellipses are three fullstops and will only be three fullstops, not four, not two. this is in English and in Chinese, it is six. six and will always be six, not five, not seven.

if you do not believe me, check this out:
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/Punctuation.html#ell

it says:
ELLIPSES
Use for omitted material.
Use for a pause longer than a dash (but do not let a writer overuse this device).
For example, The text was trailing off ...

note how in the example, three fullstops were used instead of two. that is because ELLIPSES ARE THREE FULLSTOPS, NOT TWO.

oh gosh! i cannot stand the amount of people who do not understand this!

im going to post this entry in all my blogs! i want everyone to know this!

ARGH!


JYKW

ps. today was pretty funny... (see the ellipse?) hmm, i'll put something up about today later.