{"id":3839,"date":"2012-01-27T14:51:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2012-01-27T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:51:34","slug":"ten-ten-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/ten-ten-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"ten-ten-ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite bits from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellipsis\">the Wikipedia entry<\/a> for the ellipsis, which I&#8217;d somehow never read till today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>from the Ancient Greek: \u1f14\u03bb\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c8\u03b9\u03c2,<em> \u00e9lleipsis<\/em>, &#8220;omission&#8221; or &#8220;falling short&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The triple-dot punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot.<\/li>\n<li>In reported speech, the ellipsis is sometimes used to represent an intentional silence, perhaps indicating irritation, dismay, shock or disgust. This usage is more common amongst younger, Internet-savvy generations.<\/li>\n<li>When applied in Polish language syntax, the ellipsis is called <em>wielokropek<\/em>, which means &#8220;multidot&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>As the Japanese word for dot is pronounced &#8220;ten&#8221;, the dots are colloquially called &#8220;ten-ten-ten&#8221; (\u3066\u3093\u3066\u3093\u3066\u3093, akin to the English &#8220;dot dot dot&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>As a device, the <em>ten-ten-ten<\/em> is intended to focus the reader on a character while allowing the character to not speak any dialogue. This conveys to the reader a focus of the narrative &#8220;camera&#8221; on the silent subject, implying an expectation of some motion or action. It is not unheard of to see inanimate objects &#8220;speaking&#8221; the ellipsis.<\/li>\n<li>Although an ellipsis is technically complete with three periods (&#8230;), its rise in popularity as a &#8220;trailing-off&#8221; or &#8220;silence&#8221; indicator, particularly in mid-20th century comic strip and comic book prose writing, has led to expanded uses online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And because I&#8217;m not afraid to be servicey: instead of using three periods in a row, hit option + ; on a Mac or alt + 0133 on Windows to get a proper single character ellipsis and save yourself two whole characters on your next tweet. You&#8217;re welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite bits from the Wikipedia entry for the ellipsis, which I&#8217;d somehow never read till today: from the Ancient Greek: \u1f14\u03bb\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c8\u03b9\u03c2, \u00e9lleipsis, &#8220;omission&#8221; or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lliiaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}