- From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:00:21 -0600
- To: www-international@w3.org
On 11/27/2002 10:05:50 AM "Kent Karlsson" wrote: >Well, ellipses are normally used when an *author* >truncates a sentence, or a list of some kind. >Other characters used for that: > >0E2F THAI CHARACTER PAIYANNOI (paiyan noi) > = paiyan noi > * ellipsis, abbreviation I have never seen paiyannoi used with a function similar to the ellipsis in Latin text. Only to abbreviate. For instance, the formal name for Bangkok is usually written กรุงเทพฯ because the full name is never actually used and is very long: กรุงเทพพระมหานคร บวรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกพิภพนพรัต์ ราชธานี บุรีรมย์ อุดมสันติสุข -- that's the prototypical example I was taught with, and it was explained as being used for similarly long expressions that need a short representation. I.e. abbreviations, but not in the sense of "Mr." but rather more like saying "Queen Elizabeth" rather than "Her Majesty, Elizabeth, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, etc." (whatever her full title is). - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
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