Re: OT Use of Ellipses (was Wikipedia entry on XyWrite)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

David Auerbach wrote:
>  There's another use of the word 'ellipsis'. An example:
>   Edna went to the movies and ate popcorn.
> We are wont to say, in the vocabulary of baby logic, that the logical
> form of that is a conjunction of the two statements:
>  Edna went to the movies
>  Edna ate popcorn
That may be the logical explanation of it, but the grammatical
one--holding true, I suspect, in most of the IE languages--is
that it is a compound verb: one subject, two or more verb, whose
"actions" or states of being are "performed" by the one subject.
> ellipses are rampant. (rampant on a field of grammar).
Bless my archaic soul! Don't tell me someone else is familiar
with the language of blazonry?
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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx