Episode 116 - Ellipsis

Andrew joins Ben this week to talk about a particular piece of punctuation that isn’t a dinkus!  People have strong opinions about when and where the ellipsis should and shouldn’t be used, so our hosts decided to investigate… for SCIENCE!  Along the way they discovered a number of new words to share (including dinkus)!  Fortunately there won’t be a vocabulary quiz at the end of the show, but there will be an exploration of the use of the ellipsis in the text and dialog of comics, manga, and video games.  Finally, they close the show with a couple of odd questions from Ben and some of their soon to be famous tangential discussion nonsense. 00:00:21 - Unrefrigerated, getting a Whirlpool, Kevin Meaney, and no refrigerator magnets?! 00:02:56 - Ben throws some crazy, cabinet positions, still a general, and getting over… again 00:04:53 - Birthday time travel, trust the process, meeting on Threads, and Judy Blume books 00:08:04 - Best social media wingman, and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai…” references 00:10:00 - Ben wants to compare arcade attendant notes with streamer AdventurerJessica  00:11:47 - Visual migraines, multifactorial, “the matchy color fun game,” and accomplishment 00:14:16 - Breaking up chapters, text message teaser, a very wordy hybrid, and linguistics 00:16:45 - Greek origins, graphs, two dollar words in 1800s, and the MLA format for writing 00:20:00 - Andrew thinks it’s judgmental, prescriptive versus descriptive grammar, and ain’t  00:22:31 - Interesting trends in language development, dialect coaches, and Ohio is derpy  00:24:51 - Generation Alpha’s meme inspired phrases, Florida man, and ellipsis use in texting  00:28:03 - Unspoken anger, punctuation usage confusion, the Mongolian ellipsis, and math 00:30:52 - Folding, nobody else cares, picking up styles, and guides for technical writing 00:35:10 - Vocabulary words of the episode: aposiopesis, cæsura, and “elision or deletion” 00:37:40 - Andrew goes off on Shakespeare, the days of Solid Snake, and fancy Breakout  00:39:46 - “Goddess of Victory: Nikke” conversations, and Zero Wing’s bad translations 00:42:07 - Pac-Man eating punctuation, more frequent in Japanese media, and pauses 00:44:12 - Widening the gap, interpreting the worst, and problems deciphering body language 00:48:29 - Andrew hopes he’s getting paid, the movie rights, and Ben Mezrich’s strategy 00:50:32 - Who would play you in a movie about your life, and does the face include ears?  00:52:34 - Tenet, Andrew’s nemesis, Inception, and Ben threatens to buy Andrew a BluRay    00:54:10 - Final thoughts, to confuse and annoy, that’s it, and a hero named “The Ellipsis”  Follow Andrew / Partly Robot Industries on… His website: https://partlyrobot.com/ On Instagram: https://instagram.com/partlyrobot On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@partlyrobot On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/partlyrobot Follow Two Vague on… Our website: https://www.twovaguepodcast.com  On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/two_vague_podcast On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twovaguepodcast For show appearance and other inquiries, contact us at: [email protected] -AND-  …for all of your PRI and 2VP merch check out the Partly Robot Industries store at TEEPUBLIC! https://www.teepublic.com/user/partly-robot-industries References, Links, and Tags Threads/IG Shout Outs for Liz, Kaja, and Jessica… (please be on the podcast)! https://instagram.com/liz_lapoint AND check out her GenXcellent Substack! https://instagram.com/booksbyblackley https://instagram.com/adventurerjessica  #Podbean #DIYPodcast #ApplePodcast #VideoGames #Trivia #Comedy #Talkshow #2VP #TwoVaguePodcast #PodernFamily #InterviewShow #GamersofThreads #Gamer #PartlyRobot #PartlyRobotIndustries #TeePublic