Thread: ellipses, with or without spaces?
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Old 06-03-2019, 09:38 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
I just tested the above sentences in Windows, and all sounded identical.
I stand corrected as to the TTS engines' rendering of dots vs. ellipsis. Just tried your examples, and there seems to have been some evolution (which of course is good … the danish female voice in Windows is actually endurable now, even if she still put some strange accents upon some word combinations )

Otherwise I still think that an ellipsis should be an ellipsis and not anything else.

to Turtle91 for "… use the grammatically correct symbol …"

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Kim
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