What Does The Use Of Elision Show?

[acciochelsea]

[fiction-factory]

Good starting point here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elision

[davegosling]

In linguistics, elision is the shortening of a word by removing one or more letter, e.g. I am --> I'm, etc

In philosophy, elision is the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas.

[woofgang]

it can also be used in songs/verse intended to be spoken to make the sound more fluid and musical. Its one of the reasons that italian operas are not often sung in translation, because the English is harder to elide.