Grammar Girl here. I'm Injohn Fogarty, your friendly guide to the English language.

Today, we're going to talk about the different ways we leave sounds out of words, and then we're

going to look at a wild study showing that the way people talk is being influenced by AI. But before we start, I have two

quick notes. First, David wrote in with a correction on one little bit of Latin in episode

187 about why Latin died. We said that in a famous scene in Life of Brian, a Roman soldier chastises

Brian for conjugating Romanus to Romane.

But David said that these words are nouns, so they aren't conjugated. They're declined.

And he added, yes, my teacher grabbed me by the ear when I made an especially egregious mistake,

just like in life of Brian.

Thanks, David.

And then the second note is that Katie from West Seattle called in and said the domain name of John Kelly's blog wasn't clear in episode 1443.

So that is mashedradish.com.

Mashed radish, M-A-S-H-E-D, radadish-L-E-Vest-E-Vestable.com.

I actually talked to John last week, and it's a great blog.

This next segment is by Susan Herman.

In episode 139, we talked about how to use ellipsis, initial pronoun deletion, not the punctuation mark, in informal language to make communication

flow more easily and efficiently, like the well-known advertising slogan, Got Milk.

Elypsis is the omission of whole words, but today we're going to talk about a similar phenomenon

called elision, which is the omission of sounds or syllables,

usually in casual or informal speech. We use it when we're sure the meaning will be clear,

and our amazing brains fill in the missing sounds. We'll mostly talk about what we do when we're

talking, but illusion also happens in writing,

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