Good mom news is great, Matt!
Job~ma, husband of Dana!
Happy vacationing, -t!
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Beverly - Aug 18, 2016 9:31:38 am PDT #26290 of 30003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Dana - Aug 18, 2016 9:50:14 am PDT #26291 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Fellow grammarians, have we lost the battle for not hyphenating an adverb adjective combo before a noun? In other words, phrases like "poorly defined law" rather than "poorly-defined law"?
I'm pretty sure CMOS agrees with me, but I see it all the time now.
Zenkitty - Aug 18, 2016 10:14:11 am PDT #26292 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
We don't hyphenate adverb phrases when it's clear that the adverb modifies the following adjective, like when the adverb ends in -ly.
Connie Neil - Aug 18, 2016 10:25:07 am PDT #26293 of 30003
brillig
I'm with Zen on not using the hyphen when -ly is involved.
Dana - Aug 18, 2016 10:34:18 am PDT #26294 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Good. I'm going to cling to you guys in this era of deteriorating standards.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2016 10:39:59 am PDT #26295 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm with Zen on not using the hyphen when -ly is involved.
Yeah, that's never needed.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2016 10:59:53 am PDT #26296 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I only learned that rule recently! I'd call it a recently learned rule, even.
Gudanov - Aug 18, 2016 11:01:24 am PDT #26297 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
There should be a reality TV show about editors making difficult calls on punctuation.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2016 11:12:50 am PDT #26298 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There should be a reality TV show about editors making difficult calls on punctuation.
Which TV chef yells at the contestants and makes them cry? Because that would be me.
(You can tell I don't watch cooking shows. I just know from commercials that there's at least one show with a really mean chef.)
Zenkitty - Aug 18, 2016 11:20:42 am PDT #26299 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
There should be a reality TV show about editors making difficult calls on punctuation.
I'd be the one sighing heavily and giving people the disappointed-in-you face. The audience would hate me instantly.