-as of [10 FEBRUARY 2024]–
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*aka ‘deletion’*
(aka “slurred speech”)
( said it)
(they just didn’t listen)
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“eh LI shin”
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“not just your average head-on collision…”
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-in ‘linguistics’, elision is the ‘omission’ of 1 or more ‘sounds’ (such as a ‘vowel’ / ‘consonant’ / whole ‘syllable’) in a ‘word’ or ‘phrase’–
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(sometimes sounds are ‘elided’ to make a word easier to pronounce)
(the word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of ‘living languages’, and deletion is often used in ‘historical linguistics’ for a ‘historical sound change’)
(in ‘english’ as spoken by ‘native speakers’, ‘elision’ comes naturally, and it is often described as “slurred” or “muted” sounds)
(often, ‘elision’ is deliberate)
(it is a common misconception that ‘contractions’ automatically qualify as ‘elided words’, which comes from ‘slack definitions’)
(not all ‘elided words’ are ‘contractions’)
(‘going to’ → ‘gonna’ is an ‘elision’ that is not a ‘contraction’;
(not all ‘contractions’ are ‘elided words’)
(‘can not’ → ‘cannot’ is a ‘contraction’ that is not an ‘elision’)
(in ‘french’, ‘elision’ is mandatory in certain contexts, as in the clause c’est la vie (‘elided’ from *ce est la vie))
(in ‘spanish’, ‘elision’ occurs less frequently but is common in certain ‘dialects’)
(it is never marked by an ‘apostrophe’ in writing)
(of particular interest is the word para, which becomes ‘pa’)
(multiple words can be ‘elided’ together, as in pa trabajar for para trabajar and pa delante or even pa lante for ‘para adelante’)
(‘elision’ likely occurred regularly in ‘latin’, but was not written, except in ‘inscriptions’ + ‘comedy’)
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(‘elision’ of a ‘vowel’ before a word starting in a ‘vowel’ is frequent in ‘poetry’, where the ‘meter’ sometimes requires it…)
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(for example, the ‘opening line’ of ‘catullus 3’ is…)
“lugete, o veneres cupidinesque…”
(…but would be read as…)
“lugeto veneres cupidinesque…”
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(some “morphemes” take the form of ‘elision’)
(look up ‘disfix’ for clarification)
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(the opposite of ‘elision’ is ‘epenthesis’, whereby sounds are inserted into a word to ease ‘pronunciation’)
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(the ‘omission’ of a ‘word’ from a ‘phrase’ or ‘sentence’ is NOT ‘elision’ but ‘ellipsis’ (or ‘elliptical construction’))
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