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Cc:     "linux-man" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
        "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To:     "Alejandro Colomar" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: 3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-'
From:   "DJ Chase" <u9000@posteo.mx>
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On Wed Oct 12, 2022 at 10:47 AM EDT, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> And now I found one more=20
> <https://www.editorgroup.com/blog/to-hyphenate-or-not-to-hyphenate/>:
>
>   d) block device\[en]based filesystems
>
> Where the en dash is used to distinguish it from 'a block filesystem=20
> based on a device'.

I=E2=80=99ve seen (and personally use) en-dashes like this, but only when t=
here
is also a hyphen. In this usage, the en-dash is basically just a longer
hyphen. Example:
	block-device=E2=80=93based (block-device\[en]based)

Cheers,
--=20
DJ Chase
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