Re: "I have a 6-foot ladder"

Post #420,008 by Another Scott 8/28/17 10:28:06 AM 8/28/17 10:28:06 AM Reply	Re: "I have a 6-foot ladder" http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-use-a-hyphen?page=2 Though it probably could be left out since there is little chance for ambiguity in my case. And the "of" there in my first example probably complicates the rules... FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
Post #420,009 by drook 8/28/17 10:37:22 AM 8/28/17 10:37:22 AM Reply	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. -- Drew
Post #420,010 by Another Scott 8/28/17 10:48:29 AM 8/28/17 10:48:29 AM Reply	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.
Post #420,011 by drook 8/28/17 10:49:54 AM 8/28/17 10:49:54 AM Reply	One of the authors I worked with called herself the Queen of Unnecessary Capitalization -- Drew
Post #420,012 by Another Scott 8/28/17 10:51:25 AM 8/28/17 10:51:25 AM Reply	I do that too. I blame it on taking German as a foreign language...
Post #420,013 by Andrew Grygus 8/28/17 11:02:26 AM 8/28/17 11:02:26 AM Reply	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.
Post #420,014 by drook 8/28/17 11:53:29 AM 8/28/17 11:53:29 AM Reply	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. -- Drew
Post #420,021 by Ashton 8/28/17 2:47:27 PM 8/28/17 2:47:27 PM Reply	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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