On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Remind me, what's an elipse?

An ellipsis is, in its usual sense, any punctuation that indicates
that something was left out.  Examples include three dots (...), or a
dash (as in the Jewish G-D), or, I suppose, symbols for those *$%&
curse words.

Another not so common sense of the word is when something is left out
of a sentence but not marked.  For example, if I say, "I have a piece
of software I'd like loaded to my computer" then the ellipsis is
between the "like" and the "loaded", where "to be" should be.

-todd


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