(n.) (kak-o-LIP-sus) 1. A series of three dots (...) placed at the end of a sentence to show that the reader has failed at a specific task. It is a written version of the audience's "Awwww" heard on a game show when a player loses. 2. A sentence ending with a cacollypsis. (Etymology: Greek caco-, kako- [bad] + English ellipsis [three dots]. The spelling is altered to look more like Greek.) {ED. To learn how the ellipsis is used in the United States, check the link. In particular, learn how to use an ellipsis following a period. . . . Now that we have Mirakle B.'s invented word, I recommend it for any misuse of an ellipsis. Is it a misuse to use three consecutive periods to represent an ellipsis without intervening non-breaking spaces -- except as described here? That's a matter of opinion, but my opinion is yes. A pre-fabricated Unicode ellipsis character (…) is sometimes used for an ellipsis-look-alike that takes up only one byte of storage. The problem? That character may not work across platforms.}
Примеры использования:
In many Japanese games such as Final Fantasy, when a player is killed in combat, he or she will be presented with a cacollypsis such as «You have lost...». {ED. Angle quotation marks were used to avoid a style conflict between American usage and other English usage. The style chosen for this site is that of American typographers: Periods appear inside quotation marks to look pretty, not because it's the logical place to put them.}
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