Timeline for Can I be sure about the correctness of the compound nouns that I create?
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| Jul 2, 2016 at 2:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/749068631343034369 | ||
| Jul 1, 2016 at 21:13 | answer | added | Omnidisciplinarianist | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 18:38 | comment | added | user3169 | In an example like "a two day infant" important information (age, as opposed to a period of time) is missing. You would need to say "a two day old infant" | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:55 | comment | added | TimR | I don't disagree at all. But in the long view ( and I mean the very long view, like from runic inscriptions, ornamental inscriptions, through medieval manuscripts, early block-type, to modern-day computer screens and smartphone texting) it's clear that readers can make do with very little punctuation and even without standardized spelling. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:51 | comment | added | stangdon | Usually there's no real confusion (there being a shortage of good tiger burger joints around). But sometimes it's useful to help avoid ambiguity, as in the famous headline "Police help dog bite victim". | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:45 | comment | added | TimR | But few native speakers would need the crutch in the context of an actual utterance, not a mere fragment. A maneating | man-eating | man eating tiger is on the loose. The third one is probably not a man running down the street holding a tiger-kebab ... or a tiger kebab. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:36 | comment | added | stangdon | Sometimes the dashes convey a lot of meaning. Compare "man eating tiger" with "man-eating tiger"! | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:27 | comment | added | TimR | books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:21 | comment | added | TimR | If the adjective is one formed from the verb (passive), then it will be the past-participle, e.g. lined. A road lined with trees. wheel can be understood as a verb "to outfit with wheels", and that's why some people would say "three-wheeled". So too with side, "to be created with a certain number of sides". A six-sided shape.. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:20 | history | edited | shin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:15 | comment | added | TimR | Dashes are merely orthographic and typographic conventions. It is writing making an attempt to express some prosodic information with semantic content. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:14 | comment | added | TimR | ten-year is a compound adjective. Some native speakers would say three-wheel and others three-wheeled. We say "three-way" or "three-sided" not "three side". "Tree-lined" not "tree-line road". | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 11:04 | history | edited | Cardinal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2016 at 10:44 | history | asked | Cardinal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |