Re: [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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- Jun 13, 2007, 07:15 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:43:19PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote: >> - "last-resort" is two words, not a conjoined word, it doesn't require >> the hyphen > > Right, but when you've got a couple words functioning together to modify > a following noun, the hyphen's pretty standard: "rosy-fingered > dawn".
This rendition of ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς is an adjectivized verb construct, like well-hung, good-natured, forward-looking, thinly-veiled (the latter can be written as two words, too, however).
> Is this case an exception? I suspect it's fine either way....
Nope. It was used in "a last-resort method", namely in the adjectivized meaning. Without the hyphen, it would become the last of some resort methods, quite something different (and nonsensical).
-- David Kastrup