Thread (11 messages) flat view 11 messages, 6 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar

From: David Kastrup <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:16

Andy Parkins [off-list ref] writes:
"last-resort" doesn't need to be compound because separated it still 
means "the resort that is last".
The context was "a last-resort method".  In this case, I consider the
hyphen necessary in order to keep the adjectivization connected.

-- 
David Kastrup
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