Post #420,007
8/28/17 9:47:14 AM
8/28/17 9:47:14 AM
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"I have a 6-foot ladder"
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Post #420,008
8/28/17 10:28:06 AM
8/28/17 10:28:06 AM
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Re: "I have a 6-foot ladder"
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Post #420,009
8/28/17 10:37:22 AM
8/28/17 10:37:22 AM
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My example was a compound modifier, yours was just wrong :-P
But it looked the same as mine. I frequently make that same typo and have to catch it on a second read.
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Post #420,010
8/28/17 10:48:29 AM
8/28/17 10:48:29 AM
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I used to subscribe to Car and Driver magazine...
At least one of the writers there used to have fun with compound adjectives with 15 hyphens between them... Probably helped me forget the rules.
Cheers, Scott.
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Post #420,011
8/28/17 10:49:54 AM
8/28/17 10:49:54 AM
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One of the authors I worked with called herself the Queen of Unnecessary Capitalization
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Post #420,012
8/28/17 10:51:25 AM
8/28/17 10:51:25 AM
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I do that too. I blame it on taking German as a foreign language...
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Post #420,013
8/28/17 11:02:26 AM
8/28/17 11:02:26 AM
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Didn't take German, but . . .
I use a lot of capitalization to emphasize important words in a paragraph, especially in recipes. As for hyphenation, I do it how I want, and English teachers will just have to live with it.
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Post #420,014
8/28/17 11:53:29 AM
8/28/17 11:53:29 AM
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I do it with quotes
If I'm quoting a single word at the end of a sentence, the period (or question mark, etc) goes outside the quotes. I understand it's done this way in some other English-speaking countries. I'll also put the period/question mark outside the quotes if it's not logically related to the quote. Eg: Can you say with a straight face, "Trump is a competent president"? The quoted part is not a question. The question is about the quoted part.
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Post #420,021
8/28/17 2:47:27 PM
8/28/17 2:47:27 PM
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Dunno when it was that modrin-Muricans morphed into eschewing Capitalization..
All I Know is that: those early-Americans we are so fond of quoting: used Caps pretty much as you describe. As do I.
But what do I Know!?
[Caps saves n keystrokes/merely for italics within the antediluvian interfaces, up with which we must put ..even in 2017 er, qed]
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