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While current attitudes to language persist, this difficulty of the linguistic phantom must still continue. It has to be recognised that all our natural turns of speech are misleading, especially those we use in discussing works of art. We become so accustomed to them that even when we are aware that they are ellipses, it is easy to forget the fact. And it has been extremely difficult in many cases to discover that any ellipsis is present.

RICHARDS, I. A. Principles of literary criticism. Disponível em: Gutenberg Project, 2024. Disponível em: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73827 . Acesso em 22 jan. 2026.