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Subject:Re: Re[2]: Sickness of the hyphen From:Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- TECHCENTER -dot- PACCAR -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:19:25 -0800
kcl says:
>The hyphen seems to be what I
>correct most (along with commas of course)!
Hey--if I got paid by the hyphen, I'd easily double my salary. I translate
what engineers write into English, and those folks come up with some
amazingly long strings of compound modifiers.
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"I hate quotations."
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