Timeline for Why is it “Deadpool”, not “Dead Pool”?
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| Jul 25, 2016 at 13:10 | vote | accept | Kinzle B | ||
| Jul 25, 2016 at 11:06 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @KinzleB You can't; you can only guess whether the name is 'inverted' or not. That's why 007 usually says "Bond. James Bond." But there are lots of hints: male and female given names are mostly drawn from different lists, as are given and family names, so you've got a much better than random chance of getting it right. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 1:13 | comment | added | Kinzle B | If a name is uttered the inverted way, e.g. 'Pool. Dead', how can I differentiate between a given name and a family name in real life? | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 16:26 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @KinzleB Such compounds vary in their spelling. Typically they're spelled with a hyphen when new and eventually "graduate" to single-word status. A classic example: the name of my favorite sport started as base ball and then spent a while as base-ball before becoming baseball. The hyphen in attributive dead-pool participant would be a courtesy to the reader, who when the term dead pool is new may need a hint that the phrase is to be parsed as [dead pool] participant rather than dead [pool participant]. | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | Kinzle B | So I don't need a hyphen to make deadpool adjectival? | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 15:33 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @KinzleB I didn't watch it; I just looked up the script. "Deadpool" doesn't mean "participant in a dead pool"; indeed, it doesn't "mean" anything outside of this fictional universe, it's just a name coined by the character (though I suppose you could us it as an attributive, e.g. a deadpool participant). | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | Kinzle B | Oh, I'm amazed that you watched it! :) Can "dead pool" be used as a generic name for anyone appearing on a dead pool? | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 14:25 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |