whats that fancy word....?

Question

when after a statement you put "..." ?t what's that called?

Answer 1

Ellipsis...

...plural ellipses...

...why do you ask?...

...That's an awfully suspicious thing to do...

...Am I doing this right...?

Answer 2

Okay, this is just a wild guess and I know I may be way off the mark here, but it has occurred to me that you might possibly be thinking of the French word, "voilà" (pronounced, as you probably know, "v(uh)wallah"--------often added, with a flourish, at the end of a declarative statement, to say something like, "so there you have it" or "there it is" or some such thing. I suppose some might consider this a "fancy word"......??

Waiting to see those thumbs-down votes pile up here.........

Answer 3

quote, unquote ?
citation?
quotation marks?

Ok. You mean ... . This is a form of punctuation called an ellipsis. It shows that the sentence is not finished and is used to keep the reader hanging in suspense. The sentence is usually completed on the next page.

Answer 4

Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from Greek ἔλλειψις 'omission') in printing and writing refers to the row of three full stops (... or . . . ) or asterisks (* * *) indicating an intentional omission. This punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot. An ellipsis is sometimes used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence (aposiopesis).

Answer 5

etcetera


Et cetera is a Latin expression that means "and other things", or "and so on". It is taken directly from the Latin expression which literally means "and the rest (of such things)." Et means "and"; cetera (plural of ceterum/caeterum) means "the rest."

It is also sometimes spelled et caetera or et cætera, and is often abbreviated to etc. Archaic abbreviations, most commonly used in legislation, notations for mathematics or qualifications, include &/c., &c., and &ca..

The phrase et cetera is often used to represent the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example, in the following expression...

Answer 6

um quotation marks or inverted commas. They're the same thing.

Answer 7

Quotation marks???

Answer 8

eyebrows

Answer 9

yep.. it's the elipses which rule!!
:P