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By The Blur, in General Chat

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Buce

Buce

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that's silly talk. dinner should all about risk, otherwise life gets dull.

Trust me, Spherical, if I'm cooking you get all the risk you can handle, with no need for anything else to die. :D

Buce

Buce

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Just read that one to her Bucey and she said "How rude !!" .... With that disgusted look on her face.

Women, eh?

potter3

potter3

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Here's one for the grammatically inclined: which one of these is correct in formal writing?

 

For a two and a half year period prior to this

 

 

For a two-and-a-half-year period prior to this

 

I feel like it's the hyphenated phrase, it just looks wrong for some reason.

Rincewind

Rincewind

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Here's one for the grammatically inclined: which one of these is correct in formal writing?

 

 

 

I feel like it's the hyphenated phrase, it just looks wrong for some reason.

Is there a need for hyphenation? It adds nothing. They are all full words not abbreviated like co or pre. Hyphens should not be over-used. Or overused. 

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Guest Kopfkino

Guest Kopfkino

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Here's one for the grammatically inclined: which one of these is correct in formal writing?

 

 

 

I feel like it's the hyphenated phrase, it just looks wrong for some reason.

Yeah it's the hyphenated one, general rule when writing about time periods is to hyphenate unless plural

Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

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Here's one for the grammatically inclined: which one of these is correct in formal writing?

 

 

 

I feel like it's the hyphenated phrase, it just looks wrong for some reason.

 

 

Hyphenated - and looks right to me.

 

"two-and-a-half-year" is a single compound adjective describing the noun "period".

 

In contrast, it would be "for a period of two and a half years" (no hyphenation), I think.

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potter3

potter3

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Is there a need for hyphenation? It adds nothing. They are all full words not abbreviated like co or pre. Hyphens should not be over-used. Or overused. 

 

You're just a maverick, Ken.

 

Yeah it's the hyphenated one, general rule when writing about time periods is to hyphenate unless plural

 

 

Hyphenated - and looks right to me.

 

"two-and-a-half-year" is a single compound adjective describing the noun "period".

 

In contrast, it would be "for a period of two and a half years" (no hyphenation), I think.

 

Cheers guys. That's along the lines I was thinking Alf, you hyphenate when it's used as an adjective.

Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

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You're just a maverick, Ken.

 

 

 

 

Cheers guys. That's along the lines I was thinking Alf, you hyphenate when it's used as an adjective.

 

 

To be fair to Ken, linguistic rules are made to be bent and broken in the interests of self-expression:

 

https://qwiklit.com/2014/03/05/top-10-authors-who-ignored-the-basic-rules-of-punctuation/

 

If ignoring the basic rules of punctuation is good enough for Joyce, as arguably the greatest writer in the English language, it's good enough for the likes of us!  :thumbup:

Rincewind

Rincewind

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I wasn't sure which was right. The hyphens did not look right at first. But maybe they are right looking at it again. More than one word connected into one. So it does make sense.

Webbo

Webbo

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FIF = moosebreath?

I don't think so. Fif was lurking on one of the threads the other day so I think his ban is over.

Strokes

Strokes

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I don't think so. Fif was lurking on one of the threads the other day so I think his ban is over.

Fif definitely has alternate accounts here though, I think Molly was Fif.

Soar Fox

Soar Fox

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Shame about Moosebreath. He was a decent poster most of the time, yes he did have his moments but a majority of the time I found him a good humorous poster.

perma banned mate

You allowed back in the main forum yet Una?

Webbo

Webbo

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Fif definitely has alternate accounts here though, I think Molly was Fif.

I don't think so but it's hard to know for sure. I always assumed Molly was a school girl.

 

There are a couple of posters on here I suspect of being Moose.

Unabomber

Unabomber

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Shame about Moosebreath. He was a decent poster most of the time, yes he did have his moments but a majority of the time I found him a good humorous poster.

You allowed back in the main forum yet Una?

nah that's a perma ban too mate

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