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Re: 3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-'
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: 3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-' |
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Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:22:28 +0100 |
Hi Branden,
> as there isn't in "hot fudge sundae" (even though it is only the fudge
> that is hot, not the whole sundae).
It's a ‘fudge sundae’ and a ‘hot-fudge sundae’ as the fudge is hot but
it is not a ‘hot sundae’ so ‘hot fudge sundae’ is wrong as it can't be
read as ‘hot and fudge sundae’.
> "two-fisted drinker"
Agreed. He is not a ‘two and fisted drinker’.
> Similarly, we say "thirty year-old bug"
‘We’ don't. :-) It's a thirty-year-old bug.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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