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<font size=3>At 1/20/2014 01:08 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:35
PM, W Brewer <brewerwa@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>
> aspired to (become), ellipsis.<br><br>
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"Ellipsis"? Where?</font></blockquote><br>
The ellipsis was of "be" or "become".<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>JL:
<<"players she aspired to when she was a
kid.">> [ellipsed]<br>
WB: aspired to (become), ellipsis. [that is, unellipsed]<br>
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JL: <font size=3>I aspired to be Superman
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Joel</font></body>
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