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Guest Posted 23 years ago
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Ellipsis with so and then (Guest:betina)

Can you provide me with an example of ellipsis with 'so' and 'then' and give some sort of explanation when is it possible to do that?
  

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0 so... is this on the test? and: Then... wouldn't that be cheating? 02br
00It's a very conversational or narrative technique 0-
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0 Hello LF 02br
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00Purely out of interest, what elided text would you suggest here? 02br
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00Good luck in those back pages, by the way. 02br
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0 ...Hmmm... reckon I'd stick with the the standard- er, elided text (as opposed to the theoretical, experimental one) just to be above-board 00 just for edification 02br
00and -thanks again 8-I 05000/ 0250hrefhttp://darkling.net/ellipsis
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0 Sorry, lookfar, I don't quite follow. 02br
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00What kind of ellipsis would you envisage, in your second example? 02br
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00I take the 'then' as a simple non-elliptical 'in that case'. 02br
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00MrP 0-
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0 I really didn't mean to cloud the issue, and I'm coming from the liberal end of the 02br
00rainbow, but the only kind of ellipsis I ever applied was the kind that implies pause for 02br
00reflection... as though approaching on uncertain ground. The kind that omits information 02br
00is too "editorial" for my bent, as it were. 0-
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0 Of course ... my mistake, lookfar! 02br
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00Will go slap my own head. 02br
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00See you 02br
00MrP 02br
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0 ne'er the less, I am in your debt. I will henceforth think through the usage of ellipses, 02br
00and their esoteric nature. By the bye, at present there is no "bat-signal" that summons 02br
00you from the fortress of... and I'm wond'ring shouldn't there be one. Getting "in over one's head" 02br
00is an easy thing I'm finding. Have a look at the "while, when
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0 I know, 'elide' isn't really ideal... 02br
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00I'd be interested to know whether there is a verb that means 'to leave out, by way of ellipsis'. 02br
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00'Ellipsify'? 02br
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00MrP 0-
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00no "bat-signal" 12blockquote
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00Nothing so advanced. They just leave me here to stumble blindly from thread to thread. 02br
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00Though there is a door, somewhere, I'm told. (Well, we all found our way in, somehow...So reasonably, we should all be able to find our way out...somehow...) 02br
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