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[Werewolf]

Neutral ethos message doesn't have a trailing dot.

A beggar girl doesn't know what to think about the law

[Niano]

Seems like a pretty concise statement to me, perhaps just a period?

[Sir Solan]

Um, Niano...that's exactly what Werewolf said

Neutral ethos message doesn't have a trailing dot.

[Niano]

Sorry, jemma explained that to me. here in the states i've never heard a period refered to as a trailing dot. Thanks jemma. And my apologies for the wasted space on the forum.

[jemma]

We call them FULL STOPS  And you're welcome Niano 

[Werewolf]

Okay, okay, let it be full stop. Now I can even remember my English teacher using this term. In Russian, the words 'dot', 'period' and 'full stop' all will be just 'точка', and I still do not clearly understand the difference between them.

[Sir Solan]

As far as I'm concerned, and most Canadians I know, there is no real difference, except maybe in professionalism if you were writing something to go on official record, etc

[Niano]

I personally have never heard it called anything other than a period. I dated a girl from russia for a time and even she always called it a period...*shrug*
Actually she was just in Tomsk recently for a metal concert i believe...perhaps you know something of this Unreal?

[Nierth]

Have you seen movie "Dot at i"? It should be period too? or I have missed something?

[Werewolf]

As I see it:

'Dot' means any drawn point, at 'i', for instance.
'Period' or 'full stop' is a punctuation mark. So a period is, technically speaking, a dot, but it's meaning is full stop.

As 'a' and 'A' are some sets of drawn curves, and we can refer to them as curves, of course, but it is more natural to say they are letters.

[jemma]

Excuse me. I think the point has been made that a trailing dot, period or full stop, whatever it is called in whatever country or language, is missing. Ok?

[Habbakuk]

Fixed.