Re: Re[2]: Sickness of the hyphen

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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