2022-02-22 ศัพท์ าสับสน - Set – E - ellipse
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง ellipse = “ih-LIPS”
Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary:
ellipse
Those dots that come in the middle of a quotation
to indicate something omitted are called an “ellipsis” (plural “ellipses”):
“Tex told Sam to get the . . . cow out of the bunk house.”
Here Tex’s language has been censored,
but you are more likely to have a use for ellipses
when quoting some source in a paper:
“Ishmael remarks at the beginning of Moby Dick,
‘some years ago . . . I thought I would sail about a little’
—a very understated way to begin a novel of high adventure.”
The three dots stand for a considerable stretch of prose
that has been omitted.
If the ellipsis ends your sentence,
some editorial styles require four dots,
the first of which is a period:
From the same paragraph in Moby Dick:
“almost all men . . . cherish very nearly the same feelings. . . .”
Note that the period in the second ellipsis
has to be snug up against the last word quoted,
with spaces between the other dots.
Some modern styles do not call for ellipses
at the beginning and ending of quoted matter
unless not doing so would be genuinely misleading,
so check with your teacher or editor
if you’re uncertain whether to use one in those positions.
It is never correct
to surround a quoted single word or short phrase with ellipses:
“Romeo tells Juliet that by kissing her again his ’sin is purged’”
(note, by the way, that I began the quotation after
the first word in the phrase “my sin is purged”
in order to make it work grammatically in the context of the sentence).
When text is typeset,
the spaces are often but not always omitted
between the dots in an ellipsis.
Since modern computer printer output
looks much more like typeset writing than old-fashioned typewriting,
you may be tempted to omit the spaces;
but it is better to include them and
let the publisher decide whether they should be eliminated.
An ellipsis that works perfectly well on your computer
may “break” when your text is transferred to another
if it comes at the end of a line,
with one or more of the dots wrapping around to the next line.
To avoid this, learn how to type “non-breaking spaces”
between the dots of ellipses:
in Word for Windows it’s Control-Shift-Spacebar;
on a Mac, it’s Option-Spacebar.
When writing HTML code to create a Web page,
make a nonbreaking space with this code:
THE NEW DICTIONARY OF CULTURAL LITERACY, THIRD EDITION
NOTES FOR ELLIPSE
The orbits of the planets and of many comets are ellipses.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
The Property of an Ellipse
A closed curve consisting of
points whose distances from each of two fixed points (foci)
all add up to the same value is an ellipse.
The midpoint between the foci is the center.
One property of an ellipse is that the reflectionoff
its boundary of a line from one focus will pass through the other.
As a result, in an elliptical room,
a person whispering at one focus is easily heard by someone at the other.
An oval may or may not fit the definition of an ellipse.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Usage Notes
All About Ellipses
It's time to stop calling them 'dot dot dot' . . .
You see those dots?
All three together constitute an ellipsis.
The plural form of the word is ellipses,
as in "a writer who uses a lot of ellipses."
They also go by the following names:
ellipsis points, points of ellipsis, suspension points.
We're opting for ellipsis points here, just to make things crystal clear.
(And since we're aiming for clarity here,
we'll also point out that ellipse is a different word,
though, we're sorry, it's sometimes used to mean ellipsis.)
Ellipsis points are periods in groups of usually three, or sometimes four.
They signal either that something has been omitted from quoted text,
or that a speaker or writer has paused or trailed off in speech or thought.
That's the basics.
Now we'll dig in to how they're used.
1) Ellipsis points indicate the omission of one or more words
within a quoted sentence, as in the following example
from the Preamble of the U. S. Constitution.
Note that they are usually preceded and followed by a space:
"We the People of the United States ... do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
2) Ellipsis points are usually
not used to indicate the omission of words
that precede the quoted portion.
However, in some formal contexts,
especially when the quotation is
introduced by a colon, ellipsis points are used.
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ends with a stirring call
for national resolve that "government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Its final words define the war's purpose in democratic terms:
"... that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth."
Ellipsis points following quoted material are omitted
when the quoted material forms an integral part of a larger sentence.
She maintained that it was inconsistent with
"government of the people, by the people, for the people."
3) Punctuation used in the original that falls on either side
of the ellipsis points is often omitted,
but it may be retained if it helps clarify the sentence structure.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing whether that nation ... can long endure."
"We the People of the United States, in Order to ... establish Justice, ... and secure the Blessings of Liberty ..., do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
If the omitted part includes the end of a sentence,
a four-dot ellipsis may be used, with the first dot being, in truth,
a period that follows immediately after the last word.
As the Declaration of Independence asserts,
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ..."
4) If the last words of a quoted sentence are omitted
and the original sentence ends with punctuation other than a period,
the end punctuation often follows the ellipsis points,
especially if it helps clarify the quotation.
Workshop attendees are presented with a series of questions
beginning
"What advice would you offer someone who has experienced ...?"
5) When ellipsis points are used to indicate that a quotation
has been intentionally left unfinished, the terminal period is omitted.
No space separates the last ellipsis point and the quotation mark.
The paragraph beginning "Recent developments suggest ..."
should be deleted.
6) A line of ellipsis points indicates that one or more lines have been omitted from a poem, as in the following example
from Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
The length of the line usually matches the length of the line above.
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
.............................................................
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
7) Ellipsis points are used to indicate faltering speech, especially
if the faltering involves a long pause or a sentence that trails off
or is intentionally left unfinished.
Generally, no other terminal punctuation is used.
The speaker seemed uncertain.
"Well, that's true ... but even so ... I think we can do better."
"Despite these uncertainties, we believe we can do it, but ...."
"I mean ..." he said, "like ... How?"
8) Ellipsis points are sometimes used informally as a stylistic device
to catch a reader's attention, often replacing a dash or colon.
They think that nothing can go wrong ... but it does.
9) In newspaper and magazine columns consisting of social notes,
local events listings, or short items of celebrity news,
ellipsis points often take the place of paragraphing
to separate the items.
Congratulations to Debra Morricone, our up-and-coming singing star,
for her full scholarship to the Juilliard School this fall! ...
And kudos to Paul Chartier for his winning All-State trumpet performance last Friday in Baltimore! ... Look for wit and sparkling melody when the Lions mount their annual Gilbert & Sullivan show at Syms Auditorium. This year it's ...
Ellipsis points are similarly used in informal personal correspondence in place of periods or paragraphing.
We'll be away for the weekend and then back to work Monday ... You're welcome to come for the graduation party at the end of the month.
And there you have it.
Now, go forth and with a new command of ellipsis points
and a new sense of confidence
when you need to collect your thoughts on the page ...
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