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Re: Grammaticaly correct sentences (or not...)

by sprocket <jas@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 26, 2008 at 08:08 AM

Paul wrote:

> Are you really, really sure? Just as e.e.***mings (the American poet)
> had an incurable distrust of the  capitals,   

Poetic stylistic posing, like Shaw's attempts at spelling reform. Good 
poet though.

 > I tend to believe that
> genneXt distrusts the hyphenated compound word. 

What's genneXt when it's at home?

> I think 'first class'
> is hyphenated only in very rare adjectival positions such as 'a first-
> class mind.'   Hyphenation, I think, as language is used today, is
> more the exception than the rule.

That's a half-baked idea. Note that you never hear of lophenation.

JS
 




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"myname" <ls  2008-03-24 11:58:04 
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Molly Mockford <nospam  2008-03-24 11:54:58 
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"Ildhund" <j  2008-03-24 12:26:45 
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tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (  2008-03-24 12:40:38 
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Einde O'Callaghan <ein  2008-03-24 14:05:09 
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"myname" <ls  2008-03-24 14:26:03 
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Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-03-24 07:03:31 
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Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-03-24 06:57:38 
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"Ildhund" <j  2008-03-25 22:53:54 
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sprocket <jas@[EMAIL P  2008-03-26 08:45:50 
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Peter Duncanson <mail@  2008-03-26 12:12:04 
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Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-03-26 11:01:30 
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"Ildhund" <j  2008-03-26 19:27:25 
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sprocket <jas@[EMAIL P  2008-03-27 08:14:37 
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David <nospam@[EMAIL P  2008-03-27 16:50:47 
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Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-03-27 10:25:38 
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Molly Mockford <nospam  2008-03-24 14:08:37 
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John Hall <nospam_nov0  2008-03-24 18:15:45 
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Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-03-25 10:19:59 
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"John Briggs" &  2008-03-25 17:45:33 
Re: Grammaticaly correct sentences (or not...)
sprocket <jas@[EMAIL P  2008-03-26 08:08:03 

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