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Grammar Nazi ahoy.

Grammar Nazi ahoy.

Posted Sep 30, 2010 0:02 UTC (Thu) by kena (subscriber, #2735)
In reply to: Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Red Hat Responds to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Request for Guidance on Bilski

That, and you wrote "stupidly-drafted". It's recently come to my attention that thousands of hyphens have been misused and abused by my very fingers -- apparently, adverbs don't get hyphens, because they're implicitly modifying the word that follows, and therefore don't need the explicit tying that a hyphen offers.

Which means I only did it incorrectly for some 35 years. I might be able to reach break-even...


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Grammar Nazi ahoy.

Posted Sep 30, 2010 12:38 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

Due to certain aspects of the volatility of English grammar, I tend to the position that explicit hyphen-binding of adverbs is a good idea.

Grammar Nazi ahoy.

Posted Sep 30, 2010 20:24 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

On a somewhat unrelated not (since this thread is already off-topic), in Russian language we have an opposite situation.

I.e. too _few_ hyphens in phrases borrowed from English. For example, "Internet server" in Russian should be written as "Internet-server" (so naturally a lot of people write it incorrectly without a hyphen).

So I guess it's better to fix English to require hyphens everywhere, right?


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