Re: Origin of Ellipsis

From: Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 05:13:50 +0200

2013/9/14 Stephan Stiller <stephan.stiller_at_gmail.com>

> This tradition is persistant.
>
> Persistent where?
>

This is already replied within my message you quote here. Just look forward.

> Lots of people
>
> Lots of people who
>
Same remark.

> and how many?
>

> Go to a bookstore or library, pick 100 items randomly, and report. If you
> want to make a case that it's majority or significant usage in personal
> correspondence or outside of professional printing, I'm open, but give me
> percentages, and best of luck trying.
>

You cannot reply this question by looking into a printed book. I focused on
electronic documents. Printed documents are even out of scope of Unicode,
as they are NOT encoded.
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