BS, for a less concise treatment, read this on elliptical construction.

then there is the related punctuation symbol, ellipsis.

edit: according to Silva Rhetoricæ, the Rhetorical term brachylogia is more specifically, "The absence of conjunctions between single words."

but we've seen these sort of inconsistencies before with rhetorical terms.


Last edited by tsuwm; 05/04/07 01:50 PM.