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The Germans didn't need hyphens when they named their cattle-marking and beef-labeling supervision duties delegation law: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
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<div>On Mar 4, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Ezra Haber Glenn wrote:</div>
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I agree about "compound noun" -- that must have been a Freudian slip.<br>
And I agree with the endorsement of my rephrasing (I think the goal<br>
was to close with the " -- on demand," which I managed to preserve).<br>
I think the question of "city-street" vs. "city street" could fall<br>
either way (as could "energy-source" vs. 'energy source", by the way)<br>
-- in practice, this really only matters when you run into ambiguity<br>
(imagine these magic spaces could be reconfigured to become streets<br>
that lit themselves: in that case, we'd need to distinguish between<br>
"city-street lights" and the more conventional "city street-lights").<br>
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And as Scott knows, all my email is composed on a manual typewriter.<br>
I think of that as an "n-dash," not a double-hyphen.<br>
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(Also, how comes you sez "double-hyphen" and not "double hyphen"...?)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:49 PM, David L Chandler <<a href="mailto:dlc1@MIT.EDU">dlc1@MIT.EDU</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Ezra Haber Glenn wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Shifting from asphalt to grass to photovoltaic cells, spaces can be<br>
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