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Originally Posted by Oski
ellipses appear to mean the same as "(pause)". In a deposition or trial transcript, if an utterance is unintelligible, it will read: "(unintelligible)"
The blanks after e.g. "Brandon," likely reflect a total non answer (and therefore no pause in the middle). It is left blank to show BD was given a chance to answer but was silent then the next question came. If questions come right on top of each other, they usually stay in the same paragraph.
If a witness gives a non-verbal answer, that is reflected on the record: "shakes head 'no'; "nods head up and down" etc.
Anyhow, I'm not laying down gospel, just an educated guess.
Thanks, and yes, all this is what I thought, based on experience and educated guesses, but then the following happened:
(That's actually a twofer because the red is the 2nd threat before BD incriminates himself)
The purple seems to be something BD clearly said, that fassbender clearly understood.
Then, shortly after:
This is the only time the (PAUSE) is used instead of the ellipses in this first interview, when clearly the interviewers were pausing all the time. ( somewhat funny the placement of the pause in context)
Also, there is a long ellipses that breaks up what clearly seems to be a flowing question: "Can you tell me some other things you saw?"
I considered speech-to-text software but that doesn't make hardly any sense.