Great Milan and Lady Mondegreen

Is it allowed to climb on it (or nearby)? From your point of view it looks like it is/was far away?

Well, you can walk closer to it, but I hiked 13 km over mountain ridges already, so I didn’t bother to go the extra mile.

I might revisit later and then I’ll try to get a better shot.

I wouldn’t climb on it, though.

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Where are you?

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Obviously a zoo with elephants and huge snakes… :wink:

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Somewhere with little few tourists and I’d like to keep it that way… :wink:

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That’s because three is the technically correct amount for an ellipsis :wink:

Crikey, did I just agree with Discourse?

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Not only a correct amount but also a special character. :wink: (Or in other words: The ellipsis is a special character and doesn’t consist of three single dots.)

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That’s just optimisation of bytes.

The real question is why @Ema wanted 4 dots specifically …

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Come on guys. I know that.

But I WANTED 4 dots.

The first three were an ellipsis. The fourth one a full stop.

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But the Manual of Style says you shouldn’t!

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One dot for each murder he committed. :latin_cross: :latin_cross: :latin_cross: :latin_cross: :gun:

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No, it’s called typography. :wink:

What @Sushi said! :wink: If you have an ellipsis at the end of a sentence you must not set a full stop.

But Bruno Munari says I can. It’s a quote by him. Italian humour, I’m sorry :sweat_smile:

EDIT: added a link to Munari’s Wiki page

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:open_mouth: Who were these… people and who is next?

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Do you also feel the need to put a full stop after a question mark?.
That´s crazy!.

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The guy who framed me, obviously.....

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¿Do we have people from Spain here?

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The only one I can get angry with is that when I write a list it flags the trailing comma before the ellips as a grammatical error.

Like: there’s Zak, MM, S&M, MI,…
It should be MI… in some languages (English being one of them), but that is just illogical!

While we’re talking about punctuation marks

Which is correct: ?! or !?
I think it’s the first one.

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Or everybody who points out grammar errors?