Talk:how do you say … in English

Phrase ellipsis, three regular dots or two ellipsis characters (six dots)?
Hi all,

I posted this in Beer parlour as well, but I thought it might be relevant to have this discussion here too. Here's a copy of that post:

Concern A: I came across how do you say...in English and I'm ... year(s) old. The former has been moved to how do you say …… in English. After reading the page history, there seemed to be a rational explanation as to why two ellipsis characters (six dots) were used. Given that Phrasebook provides an example with three regular dots (three separate characters), I'm confused about what the naming convention should be.

Concern B: Most people cannot type the ellipsis character (…) without copying and pasting from somewhere else. Doesn't this limit the usefulness of Wiktionary as a tool for looking up words? What if a phrase starts with the ellipsis characters and the user wanted to look that up? It would likely only be found with great difficulty.

- Dentonius (talk) 08:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)