re: Starting Line Up According to Les Miles

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Do you see those little dots after the phrase "at a point"? There are three of them. They're little so take a good look.

Those little dots are called an ellipsis. Merriam-Webster provides a definition for an ellipsis:

a : the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete

b : a sudden leap from one topic to another

Now, you can attempt to understand that perhaps there is an omission of words from the quote. Or you can attempt to understand that perhaps something happened at the Rotary Club meeting that caused a change in the topic, after all, Miles was speaking extemporaneously rather than reading from a prepared statement.

Or you can continue to be an a-hole who makes weak attacks on a partial quote of some comments made at a Rotary Club meeting.

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I wish a reporter, just once, would go "Les, what the frick are you even talking about? Thats not how words work. Thats half a sentence with zero meaning."

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