They say that the emergence of text messaging is killing off commas, colons and apostrophes.

他们说短信出现扼杀了逗、冒和省略。

The prince laughed. " Viserys hardly reigned a fortnight" .

" 韦赛里斯就统治了那么几天，省略也自然。"

And so on and so forth, in carefully constructed elliptical bursts of information.

如此这般，用精心设计省略句不时透露些信息。

Delete any long leaders like ? ....

删除所有省略，比如“… … ”。

… … Right. . . Now if you do decide to make an application, what you do is send it directly to me in my department.

省略好，现在如果你决定申请，你需要做就直接发送到我办公室。

You can leave out the word THAT if you want to.

如果你想，可以省略 THAT。

" One of the best" , " wa na the best" , drop the " f" , drop the " v" and keep the " a" .

" One of the best（最好），" /wʌ nə ðə/ best" ，省略" f" ，省略/v/，并保留" a/ə/" 。

Yes. Mind you, Miyake's article left out a lot of details.

对，提醒你一下，Miyake文章中还省略了很多细节。

The apostrophe is not used to show there is more than one, it's used to show there is a missing letter or that the word is a possessive, it's just wrong!

不用来表示不止一个，它用来表示省略一个字母或者那个词一个所有格，出租车那种用法错误！

" You should've asked, I would've been, I would've been happy to do it" or " it's fine" , " 's fine" drop the " d" , drop the " it" , " 's fine" .

You should've asked, I would've been, I would've been happy to do it，或 it's fine，'s fine，把 d 省略了，把 it 省略了，'s fine。

I don't know that I would say she drops the D, but it's very very subtle and I think you could drop the D. 'I told Link', 'I told Link', 'I told Link'.

我认为她把 D 音省略了，但非常微妙，我认为你可以省略 D 音。I told Link，I told Link，I told Link。

And if there's a " t" at the end of a word, bleedin' forge i!

如果在一个单词末尾有一个字母“t”，那就把它省略。

Tell me who you really are — just leave out most of the details.

告诉我你到底谁——不过要省略大部分细节。

But in other cases, English speakers leave out these words.

但在其他情况下，说英语人会省略这些单词。

In informal English, grammar structures can be shortened. Words can sometimes be dropped. Listen.

在非正式英语中，语法结构可以被简化，单词可以省略，听。

Most books on writing well preach the advice to omit needless words.

大多数写作书都建议人们省略不必要词。

So what ends up happening is that I could almost fill in the ellipses.

最后结果，我几乎可以把这些省略部分填满。

Omission (You don't need to know that. ) , distraction (That's not the real story, this is. ) , opinion masquerading as clairvoyance (Oh, here's what is gonna happen. ) , and influence peddling (You know, a lot of people are saying...).

省略（你不需要知道那个）、分散注意力（那不真正故事，这才）、伪装成清晰预知（哦，这接下来会发生事情），还有施展影响力（你知道，很多人都在说......）。

You might remember this from our video on elision.

你可能还记得在有关省略那课中讲过。

You can even leave out the word are and just say how you doing?

你甚至可以省略“are”这个单词，只说“how you doing”？