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I meant to say that the title is redacted. IIRC [...] would do it but the site skipped the ....
by uppercasenut 10y ago
I meant to say that the title is redacted. IIRC [...] would do it but the site skipped the ....
- ams6110 10y agoYou mean elided. Redacted normally refers to "blacking out" or censoring something confidential in a larger document.
- uppercasenut 10y agoThanks 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
- haikuginger 10y agoFWIW, 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.
- dragonwriter 10y agoBracketed 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.