What is a "." ?

[Aeron]

What is a "." ?

Only english!

We have:

dot

point

pixel

period

sign

spot

character

key

stain

blot

blemish

speck

macula

circle

mark

(By Aeron and SM|xenex)

[orappa]

Full-stop

Ellipsis (when you join 3 together)

[dystopia]

.. = up one dir

You could also call it elusive in noob's native tongue ;P

[Prokopis]

Ellipsis (when you join 3 together)

I think those are called either just dots, or aposiopetics

How about stigma?

[DrEaM4D]

what if i say Four Eyed Chick?

[MAD_BOY]

deciaml exclamation pointt (spelling...)

[DrEaM4D]

"." = nuff said

[Luigi]

what about shit stain

[orappa]

Ellipsis (when you join 3 together)

I think those are called either just dots, or aposiopetics

How about stigma?

I've never ever heard of the word "aposiopetics" before (and neither has Google it would seem ), but ellipsis is the correct term for "..."

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie ... psis&meta=

[Robpol86]

Joiner!!

like in php.

$hiaeron = "i hate you"." aeron";

echo $hiaeron; //i hate you aeron

[Prokopis]

The word ellipsis is greek and literally means lack, which doesn't say much for that punctuation mark; lack for comment maybe, but that's it. It is however correct and for all my years speaking english, I'd never heard of them being called that before. Anyway, I looked it up and you're right on that, so I stand corrected.

What we use to describe the three dots in greek is the word aposiopetics (word is in plural), which, as I've found, exists selfsame in the english language in its singular form (aposiopetic), meaning someone/something relating to hushing, suppressing a comment, remaining silent when there's something to say, etc and that is what the "..." sign is supposed to suggest ("siopi" = silence).

I guess you'd have to be greek to see a slight irony in this whole thing

[orappa]

Well, we've both learned something today then

[Guest]

its a period, something that your on