Point taken. It's a stylistic thing, but clarity is impt.

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Post #124,857 by Another Scott 11/9/03 10:54:06 PM Reply	Point taken. It's a stylistic thing, but clarity is impt. Your link is appreciated, but it reminds me of the John Cleese skit in "Meaning of Life" where he's the schoolteacher telling the kids when to put their [link\|http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/MeaningOfLife/m-05-ii.html\|clothes on the lower peg]... :-) I should have referred to something like [link\|http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/11/11.481j/www/Suggestions.html\|this ] first: 14. Hyphenation of adjectives. The general rule for using hyphens with adjectives is: two or more adjectives should be hyphenated if when they are used alone the true sense of the modification is not clear. Write-- The base-year data were obtained from an independent survey in Kenya. Do not write-- The base year data were obtained from an independent survey in Kenya. (It is not base data, nor year data, but base-year data that are being described.) If there's a chance of it being misinterpreted, hyphens should be used. I'd have to check Gryg's text again to see if I'd suggest fewer hyphens. Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #124,858 by deSitter 11/9/03 10:57:16 PM Reply	Re: Point taken. It's a stylistic thing Well, in college I got taken-to-task for over-hyphenating. I think this comes from reading old material, which is loaded with hyphens (e.g. co-ordinates). -drl
Post #124,867 by Another Scott 11/9/03 11:36:10 PM Reply	I understand. This reminds me of reading articles in The New Yorker years ago. They had this thing for spelling words like cooperate with umlauts, er, [link\|http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:mbid-NEVKSUJ:www.eece.unm.edu/faculty/chaouki/papers/advice.ps+dierisis&hl=en&ie=UTF-8\|dierisis] (scroll down). It still looks weird to me, but I can see some (limited) sense in it. Cheers, Scott.
Post #124,886 by pwhysall 11/10/03 3:18:52 AM Reply	Re: Point taken. It's a stylistic thing co-ordinate and co-operate look perfectly fine to me :) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

I hate to make the critics work so hard . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (35) - Nov. 9, 2003, 08:51:55 PM EST

s/NSDAC/NASDAQ/ -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Nov. 9, 2003, 08:55:44 PM EST

Ooops, I was going to check that and fogot. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Nov. 9, 2003, 08:58:00 PM EST

s/$250 million/$210 million / - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - Nov. 9, 2003, 09:05:56 PM EST

And I forgot the damned "it's" scan again - fixed. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Nov. 9, 2003, 09:05:50 PM EST

Re: And I forgot the damned "it's" scan again - fixed. - (deSitter) - Nov. 9, 2003, 09:51:20 PM EST

Could also mention that Novell's deal with SuSE shows - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - Nov. 9, 2003, 09:15:26 PM EST

Right, a good point . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Nov. 9, 2003, 09:23:51 PM EST

The paranoid in me - (Arkadiy) - Nov. 10, 2003, 10:51:34 AM EST

Nit Picks == 2 - (folkert) - (5) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:40:48 PM EST

KonquEror -NT - (deSitter) - (4) - Nov. 9, 2003, 09:52:19 PM EST

what does: - (folkert) - (3) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:36:50 PM EST

Re: what does: - (deSitter) - (2) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:46:51 PM EST

No Probs -NT - (folkert) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:48:44 PM EST

Oh, I thought you meant: /konk-u-error/ -NT - (FuManChu) - Nov. 10, 2003, 12:12:39 AM EST

Style nit - (broomberg) - (2) - Nov. 9, 2003, 09:54:50 PM EST

Noted, will change. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:00:27 PM EST

Understatement in journalism is the rule -NT - (deSitter) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:02:01 PM EST

A few things. - (Another Scott) - (5) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:03:53 PM EST

Re: A few things. - (deSitter) - (4) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:13:37 PM EST

Point taken. It's a stylistic thing, but clarity is impt. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:54:06 PM EST

Re: Point taken. It's a stylistic thing - (deSitter) - (2) - Nov. 9, 2003, 10:57:16 PM EST

I understand. - (Another Scott) - Nov. 9, 2003, 11:36:10 PM EST

Re: Point taken. It's a stylistic thing - (pwhysall) - Nov. 10, 2003, 03:18:52 AM EST

Copyedit - (kmself) - Nov. 10, 2003, 12:34:52 AM EST

Re: I hate to make the critics work so hard . . - (rickmoen) - (2) - Nov. 10, 2003, 07:34:15 AM EST

"gruesome neologistic verb" - (admin) - (1) - Nov. 10, 2003, 08:21:17 AM EST

Gruesome at any age - (rickmoen) - Nov. 10, 2003, 09:48:15 PM EST

I would be less positive on Sun - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 10, 2003, 11:02:56 AM EST

Typo in the new bit - (drewk) - Nov. 10, 2003, 11:03:36 AM EST

Much cleaner - (rickmoen) - (5) - Nov. 11, 2003, 01:46:07 AM EST

Re: Much cleaner - (deSitter) - Nov. 11, 2003, 01:55:29 AM EST

Had lots of client work to do . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Nov. 11, 2003, 04:56:11 AM EST

Had lots of client work to do . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Nov. 11, 2003, 09:18:46 AM EST

Bizarre - (deSitter) - (1) - Nov. 11, 2003, 09:21:18 AM EST

Coffee . . soon -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Nov. 11, 2003, 09:33:35 AM EST

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