| 05:22 | <yhirano> | annevk: Thank you for the review. |
| 05:22 | <yhirano> | annevk: sure > reporting changes |
| 17:02 | <annevk> | jgraham: (and others) is it "also specification- and testing-wise" or "also specification and testing-wise" or even "also specification-wise and testing-wise"? |
| 17:51 | <jgraham> | The first one looks weird the second one sounds weird |
| 17:51 | <jgraham> | Might just be the first one without the dash after specification |
| 17:58 | <Domenic> | I'm pretty sure the first one is correct |
| 18:15 | <jgraham> | Some random page on the internet claims it's technically correct, but little used. So as a descriptivist that sounds like "incorrect" to me :p |
| 18:23 | <annevk> | jgraham: share pretty please? (I ended up avoiding it, but it's the way you'd write it in Dutch so I'd like to read more out of curiosity.) |
| 18:24 | <jgraham> | https://www.gsbe.co.uk/grammar-the-hyphen.html |
| 18:26 | <Domenic> | Wow hyphens are stupid complicated https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.asp |
| 18:27 | <Domenic> | "Hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine." |
| 18:27 | <Domenic> | "Hyphenate all spelled-out fractions. But do not hyphenate fractions introduced with a or an." |
| 19:40 | <jgraham> | I mean half of these things are made up "rules" that don't match what actual people do |
| 19:42 | <jgraham> | (not those ones specifically which I haven't read but style/grammar guides in general) |
| 20:01 | <astearns> | I definitely do the one- and two-thirds thing, because that's different than one and two-thirds. But one third by itself seems fine to me. |
| 20:26 | <TabAtkins> | Yeah, I consistently do the trailing-dash when I'm breaking a hyphenated compound across a conjunction. |
| 20:30 | <astearns> | but I wouldn't have used the hyphen in trailing dash there :) |
| 21:52 | <TabAtkins> | hyphenating them into a phrase; there's an implicit "trailing-dash technique" there |