Re:Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and...
by oh_sigh on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:54PM
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What's with the empty brackets in the title?
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Re:Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and...
by uppercasenut on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:56PM
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I meant to say that the title is redacted. IIRC [...] would do it but the site skipped the ....
Re:Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and...
by haikuginger on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:05PM
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FWIW, a plain ellipsis should replace any number of words redacted for brevity. E.g., "The US government is violating the due process, equal protection, and habeas corpus rights of immigrants," becomes "The US government is violating the... rights of immigrants."
If replacing a word with another word to convey missing contextual meaning- e.g., "I won't do business with [Mr. Trump] in the future," that's when you pull out the brackets.
Re:Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and...
by dragonwriter on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:13PM
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Bracketed ellipses are often used in quoted material to mark elisions to make clear that the ellipses are inserted by the party relaying the quote to mark a elision, not ellipses present in the original text.
Most (maybe even all) formal sources that I've encountered use this style, not unbracketed ellipses.
Re:Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and...
by ams6110 on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:03PM
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You mean elided. Redacted normally refers to "blacking out" or censoring something confidential in a larger document.
Re:Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and...
by uppercasenut on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:10PM
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Thanks guys. In old days I knew that ... meant that something is being omitted but I forgot :)
Anyway, I wanted to say that the title is not as it is on the original site. I edited it thanks to your advice