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brachylogy (bra-KIL-uh-jee) noun
> Conciseness of diction or an instance of such.
[From Medieval Latin brachylogia, from Greek brakhulogi, brakhu-,
brachy- (short) + -logy, from logos (word).]
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
> "The term for the omission of words that are intended to be 'understood'
by the reader is ellipsis. Its extreme or irregular form has a name in
Greek rhetoric: brachylogy, relying on the listener to supply the missing
words, much as I relied on the reader to put a verb in the sentence
fragment 'A profound question, that.'"
William Safire; Microwave of the Future; The New York Times; Oct 7, 1990.
I would really appreciate it if one of the experts could make the
parts marked with > understandable/ visible to me.
I profoundly cannot make sense from these words even after looking them up.
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brachylogy
tsuwm 05/04/2007 6:52 PM
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