Elipses
Yeah …elipses are a bit old hat by now. Those dots spaced away from everything and with spaces between them, I'm thinking now, may be a throwback to the good old days of pushme-pullyou typewriters. Modern keyboards put them down the same way as printers of newpapers, books and magazines always have.
All that unnatural spacing must be one of the peculiar ways editors like manuscripts be be presented. Poor little things haven't learned to read very well yet, and so they need really large typeface, and lines spaced out wide enough to scribble their inane little suggestions between them. Suggesting that good common words be replaced by the current crop of silly buzz-words, usually. I mean, how can an editor be expected to read thousands of words one after the other without a few comforting "hopefullies" among them; or be expected to understand the word "period" unaddended "of time"; or find no liberal sprinkling of the ubiquitous "perspective".
I had my simple "learned to see things better" changed not long ago by an editor to "developed a broader perspective". Perspective pertaining exclusively to depth perception, I can't begin to imagine what the hell a broader one must be. Well, I guess so long as it all fits into someone's style manual it doesn't really matter whether or not it makes sense…
Yeah …elipses are a bit old hat by now. Those dots spaced away from everything and with spaces between them, I'm thinking now, may be a throwback to the good old days of pushme-pullyou typewriters. Modern keyboards put them down the same way as printers of newpapers, books and magazines always have.
All that unnatural spacing must be one of the peculiar ways editors like manuscripts be be presented. Poor little things haven't learned to read very well yet, and so they need really large typeface, and lines spaced out wide enough to scribble their inane little suggestions between them. Suggesting that good common words be replaced by the current crop of silly buzz-words, usually. I mean, how can an editor be expected to read thousands of words one after the other without a few comforting "hopefullies" among them; or be expected to understand the word "period" unaddended "of time"; or find no liberal sprinkling of the ubiquitous "perspective".
I had my simple "learned to see things better" changed not long ago by an editor to "developed a broader perspective". Perspective pertaining exclusively to depth perception, I can't begin to imagine what the hell a broader one must be. Well, I guess so long as it all fits into someone's style manual it doesn't really matter whether or not it makes sense…