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#91898 01/19/03 06:31 PM
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Sausage you are, Pfranz. Wish I were that wise.


#91899 01/19/03 09:14 PM
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Whether one should use an apostrophe in such expressions as 'Ten years imprisonment' is a disputed and not very important point.

Well; I'll agree that it isn't the end of the world, whichever form you use - but I still contend that "Two Weeks" is plural not possesive - and I have a lot of sympathy with -
but the word must be hyphened [ - eh? you must mean hyphenated matey...]

However, "hyphened" is a completely acceptable, if somewhat outdated, form. "Hyphenated" is in line with modern usage, and I am perfectly happy to accept that (even though I would hesitate to use it myself!) I guess it has its origins on the other side of the Atlantic from my abode, and would suggest that, seeing as all-y'all US'ns have discarded various letters from the original language (like the "u" from "flavour", for instance) you are now compenating by adding redundant syllables to words like "hyphened".



#91900 01/19/03 09:31 PM
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>you are now compenating by adding redundant syllables

allow me to gloss: compenating - writing without regard to much of anything.


#91901 01/19/03 09:51 PM
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discarded various letters from the original language (like the "u" from "flavour", for instance)

Well, lessee:

MnE Flavor from
ME Flavour from
OF Flaor from
VL Flator from
L Flatus

Took out the extraneous u, I'd say.



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