From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:08:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wsy83mpn.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070612175421.GA26767@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:21 -0400")
>>>>> "J" == J Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
J> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:43:19PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
>> - "last-resort" is two words, not a conjoined word, it doesn't require
>> the hyphen
J> Right, but when you've got a couple words functioning together to modify
J> a following noun, the hyphen's pretty standard: "rosy-fingered dawn".
J> Is this case an exception? I suspect it's fine either way....
According to <http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/042703.htm>, hyphenate
unless it's a "ly" or unless it makes clear sense without it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-12 12:18 [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammer Steve Hoelzer
2007-06-12 15:43 ` [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar Andy Parkins
2007-06-12 16:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-12 18:55 ` Andy Parkins
2007-06-12 17:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-12 19:27 ` Andy Parkins
2007-06-12 20:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-13 7:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-12 21:08 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2007-06-13 7:15 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-13 7:39 ` Andy Parkins
2007-06-14 4:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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