Can I follow Kevin's rules of elision? | The Incidental Economist

Can I follow Kevin’s rules of elision?

  December 29, 2011 at 8:14 pm

  Austin Frakt

I seriously doubt I will remember to follow Kevin Drum’s rules of elision, though he’s now made it much easier for me to do so. I had been trying to infer them from his posts for a while. On request, he explained them. I may stick with my one-size-fits-all “[…]”, though I find sensible his argument for not bothering with things like [t]his. [O]r this.

AF

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- by David on December 30th, 2011 at 02:46
  
  Here are three must-read posts about quoting:
  
  http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2011/11/30/quoting-well-part-1-it%E2%80%99s-more-than-just-accuracy/
  
  http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2011/12/07/quoting-well-part-2-when-it%E2%80%99s-ok-and-not-ok-to-meddle/
  
  http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2011/12/13/quoting-well-part-3-dot-dot-dot/
  
  The last one deals specifically with ellipsis.
  
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