Can I follow Kevin’s rules of elision?

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.

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Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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