Let's review.
Jul. 1st, 2004 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
This is all prompted by a few things I've seen in LJ lately, including this phrase: missing out capitals and using "..."s So, time for a review.
Ellipsis: A dot-dot-dot. There's only ever THREE dots in an ellipsis. Sometimes there appears to be four, but what you're really seeing is an ellipsis followed by a period marking the end of the sentence.
Ellipses: More than one ellipsis. I suspect this is a Greek word.
Umlaut: Two dots found over a vowel in certain languages (usually German) to indicate that the vowel is pronounced differently.
Diaresis: Among other things, two dots found over a vowel in certain circumstances to indicate that this vowel is a separate syllable from the one before it. English doesn't have umlauts.
Affect: The verb
Effect: The noun.
There may be more. Probably not, though.
Ellipsis: A dot-dot-dot. There's only ever THREE dots in an ellipsis. Sometimes there appears to be four, but what you're really seeing is an ellipsis followed by a period marking the end of the sentence.
Ellipses: More than one ellipsis. I suspect this is a Greek word.
Umlaut: Two dots found over a vowel in certain languages (usually German) to indicate that the vowel is pronounced differently.
Diaresis: Among other things, two dots found over a vowel in certain circumstances to indicate that this vowel is a separate syllable from the one before it. English doesn't have umlauts.
Affect: The verb
Effect: The noun.
There may be more. Probably not, though.
