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I've seen this construction quite a bit, although only in the last five years or so. It's a transcription of a way of speaking, where the speaker is emphasizing something by using a verbal full sto...
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2019-12-13T12:00:07Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T02:16:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
I've seen this construction quite a bit, although only in the last five years or so. It's a transcription of a way of speaking, where the speaker is emphasizing something by using a verbal full stop after several words in a row, no matter where it is in the sentence. To wit: - Please don't use the "Prologue, then flashback" technique because it has been done. to. death. lately and I am sick of it. - "We are going to do this because we were hired to do it, and then we. Are. Finished. Forever. I don't ever want to speak to you again." - That episode of _The Simpsons_? Best. Episode. Ever. Does this structure have a name? And while we're at it, is there any convention to how the words are capitalized? I used all three ways I've seen it (no caps because it's in the middle of a sentence, caps after every period, three "single-word sentences") in the examples above. (My guess is that it originated from [Comic Book Guy's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Guy#Character) catchphrase, but that's neither here nor there.)
#1: Imported from external source
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2012-03-23T11:07:59Z (over 12 years ago)
Original score: 5