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Does "Hunt On for the Culprits" refer to " Hunt that continues for the Culprits"?

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Hunt On for the Culprits Behind Crippling Cyber Attack Computer security companies on Sunday said the culprits behind last week's cyber terror attacks were North or South Koreans or at least people who are very familiar with South Korean affairs.

AhnLab, Hauri and other IT security companies said the computer viruses that began executing their commands at midnight Friday were programmed to destroy 37 different types of files. Among files targeted for destruction were the "Hana Word" word processing program created in the mid 1980s by Hongjin Data Service and the "Hunminjeongeum" word processing program by Samsung Electronics.

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@oristarA,

It means the hunt has started and is continuing (or ongoing).

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@oristarA,

It is as Merry has related, Ori. It's an ellipted headline.

The hunt is on for ...

If you and a friend were looking for something and you got tired of doing so, but the friend wanted to continue, then a "Hunt on" from you would mean, "Go ahead and keep looking" or "Continue looking".

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Thank you

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@JTT,

Rather than an ellipsis of (The) Hunt (is) on ... ,

one might conclude that "on" is merely a colloquial redundancy

given the prescription 'headline'.

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@oolongteasup,

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Rather than an ellipsis of (The) Hunt (is) on ... ,

one might conclude that "on" is merely a colloquial redundancy

given the prescription 'headline'.

I disagree, Oo.

That wouldn't make sense. It would hold a different meaning.

"The hunt is for the culprits" says something different than, "The hunt is on for the culprits".

I've been hearing a lot about 'redundancy' of late. Most of it is, to my mind, pardon my forthrightness, and with no anger intended, a crock of sour owl manure. English is full of redundancy and it comes not just in the colloquial portion of language.

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@JTT,

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"The hunt is for the culprits

That's all good to hear JTT

except that nothing in my post referred to your 'quotation'

don't ya just love redundancy.

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@oolongteasup,

Then I may well have missed your point, Oo.

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