Todd Walton wrote:
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
What's it called when you are quoting someone but need to change a word
or two for it to make sense in the present context? For example, you
said "[you] have a piece of software [you'd] like [to have] loaded to
[your] computer". Most of theses substituted you for I. But one of
them was an insertion for something that may not have been clear but
seemed to be implied.
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