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Wednesday 16 May 2012
It's not hard to use an apostrophe in its rightful place
I've just done it. Twice, if you include when not to use one. Which, I do. Just because iPhones seem to think that "its" isn't a word, doesn't mean that it isn't.
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We had an office discussion of the use of a hyphen. The term 'super-mad'had been morphed into 'mad-skillz'.
ReplyDeleteSuper-mad describes a degree of madness which is super and excludes the proceeding object from ambiguity.
mad-skill[s] user would work but it's ugly.
I would interpret "mad skills" as skills that were mad, whereas "mad-skills" would be skills in being mad...
ReplyDelete"He has mad computer skills" - he is good with computers.
"He has computer mad-skills" - he has just spend half an hour in a skype conversation with himself.