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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:31 PM Original message |
Spelling police, listen up! Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. boy, are those divisions arbitrary or what? |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And some of those words I've never hyphenated. |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. Well, I have heard rumors that chat room affectionadoes who find time to have sex yell |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Yes, but what you don't know is... |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. Ah yes. The difference between English in the U.S. and U.K. |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. You can take my hyphens from my cold, dead hands! - n/t |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. Save the hyphen! |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. I've never hypenated any of those words, & I'm a frequent user of hyphens. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm no Johnnycomelately to grammar, but isn't this a wellknown trend? |
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Cruzan (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. I don't think I've ever in my life seen 'ice cream' hyphenated |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 04:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. The style I usually use |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 06:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I believe hyphens are used when words are used as adjectives. |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. This was written in London. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. When referring to the President: "Shit-Ball" and Ass-Wipe" work well |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 04:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. So does bushit without |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
15. Yeah, and if I were king and could kill the apostrophe |
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