Dear Denis Wood,
You wrote a book called The Power of Maps. You were once a professor at NCSU in their school of design. Hell, Wikiepedia even states that you got your BA in English. Therefore you will understand my intense rage when I read the introduction to your book and encounter no less than twenty-three instances of you using fucking ellipses. Twenty-three! Your introduction is only three pages long. Holy shit man!
A quick flip through the rest of the book shows that while you do slow down, you do not stop doing this. I spot an ellipse at least every two pages. I've seen bad fanfic writers use less ellipses than you. You expect me to take you seriously? Please. I can't very well take your arguments into consideration if I'm having bad flashbacks to FF.Net. You fail already.
In conclusion, I have only read four pages of your book and I want to reach through the pages and strangle you. Unless you are quoting someone and leaving words out or writing dialogue (neither of which you are doing) ellipses should be used sparingly. Kind of like semicolons. There is no justification for using them every three sentences.
You have a degree in English. Use it.
No love,
Tsaiko
You wrote a book called The Power of Maps. You were once a professor at NCSU in their school of design. Hell, Wikiepedia even states that you got your BA in English. Therefore you will understand my intense rage when I read the introduction to your book and encounter no less than twenty-three instances of you using fucking ellipses. Twenty-three! Your introduction is only three pages long. Holy shit man!
A quick flip through the rest of the book shows that while you do slow down, you do not stop doing this. I spot an ellipse at least every two pages. I've seen bad fanfic writers use less ellipses than you. You expect me to take you seriously? Please. I can't very well take your arguments into consideration if I'm having bad flashbacks to FF.Net. You fail already.
In conclusion, I have only read four pages of your book and I want to reach through the pages and strangle you. Unless you are quoting someone and leaving words out or writing dialogue (neither of which you are doing) ellipses should be used sparingly. Kind of like semicolons. There is no justification for using them every three sentences.
You have a degree in English. Use it.
No love,
Tsaiko
