Lacuna

[amanda huginkiss]

TEST - has the axe fallen on the unregistered user or has the loophole not yet been closed?

[Ewan Husami]

Pray tell, what ARE you talking about?

Axe? Loophole?

You're getting carried away by your metaphors; they're flying out of the window!

[SchizophrenicCabbage]

Lacuna = e.g. 'The cat... the dog' - there is a gap in the text i.e. this refers to a loophole. [Or, as we referred to it in A Level English... 'lacuna mattata!']

I presume the whole thing over unregs posting and it still being possible is the point.

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Cheese.

[Admin]

Quoting Schizophreniccabbage from 03:31, 3rd May 2008
Lacuna = e.g. 'The cat... the dog' - there is a gap in the text i.e. this refers to a loophole. [Or, as we referred to it in A Level English... 'lacuna mattata!']

Looks like an ellipsis to me (...)

I presume the whole thing over unregs posting and it still being possible is the point.

Of course it's still possible for unregistered users to post messages - we have a lot of posts from prospective students who'd like to find out more about the University they're applying for, and the town itself.
And long may that continue.

We had a spot of bother with spam, and the system was temporarily disabled while we implemented new measures to help prevent it.

[SchizophrenicCabbage]

Ellipsis is when there's one word missing. Lacuna when it's undeterminable. I didn't exactly use the best of examples though - it was late!

[LonelyPilgrim]

The name of this punctuation mark [...] is ellipsis

An ellipsis is sometimes used to represent a lacuna. A lacuna is a missing section of text from a manuscript - it refers specifically to when there is an obvious section missing from source material.

It does not refer to when one chooses not to quote certain parts of source material - ie. cutting irrelevant passages. However, [...] is used to represent this as well.

[...] is also used to seperate a phrase from an otherwise complete sentence.

[...] can also be used to seperate components in a disjointed list.

[...] can also be used to designate a pause in dialogue, particularly as a prelude to a non sequitor or some other disjointed part of conversation.

In all of these cases the name of [...] as a symbol is ellipsis and not lacuna. Lacuna refers to a specific situation - missing parts of a manuscript - and not to the punctuation mark used to designate it.

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Self-control is the chief element of self-respect; self-respect is the chief element of courage. - Thucydides

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

What the fuck guys this is amateur. I expect better, and I expect more of better. Better expect more, more expectation is better.

Man the fuck up, seriously.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Fuck.

[SchizophrenicCabbage]

Christ! I'll be more specific with my examples next time. I wasn't aiming for a Nobel prize, just something to help out the second poster!

Why use rocket science to explain something when a stick-figure diagram would do, and be clearer?!

[LonelyPilgrim]

Quoting Schizophreniccabbage from 23:39, 3rd May 2008
Christ! I'll be more specific with my examples next time. I wasn't aiming for a Nobel prize, just something to help out the second poster!

Perhaps I should have posted on the Pet Hates thread that imprecise use of language enrages my inner pedant.

Why use rocket science to explain something when a stick-figure diagram would do, and be clearer?!

Are you familiar with the webcomic XKCD, then?

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Self-control is the chief element of self-respect; self-respect is the chief element of courage. - Thucydides

[exnihilo]

Undeterminable??? WTF?

[Legion]

wtf mate? like, u know? What?

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

What?

[Guest]

ALL SINNERS FEAR THE UNREGISTERED'S WRATH!