• OrteilGenou
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    Ironic that there’s a grammatical error in the headline… 6th-grade levels, surely

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      The great journalism of “Homeless Romantic” has really been in decline.

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      This is all just a simulation.

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        That’s what the lizard people want you to think!

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        If it were a simulation or real what would be the difference? I mean if you could replicate the titanic down to the atom you effectively have the original. Same philosophical “problem” with teleportation of a human being.

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        How is the feet pics thing working out for you?

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        3 年前

        All that does is make it extremely poorly written because of “sixth” followed by a compound noun instead of the misplaced hyphenation for a compound adjective.

        What you basically just said is “it’s not grammatically incorrect in that way, it’s even more grammatically incorrect to the point of being nonsensical in this other, more abstruse way.”

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            No shit. I was explaining to the person that thinks it should be “6th grade-levels” that would be even more nonsensical and grammatically incorrect.

            For someone that seems to be critical of writing errors, you’re shockingly bad at reading comprehension. All you are doing is quite literally repeating the sentiment of the initial comment in this thread.

            It’s not that hard.

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        You hyphenate the words acting as an adjective, I e. Two-gun kid, not two gun-kid

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          One might also hyphenate compound nouns. Depending on context, “two gun-kids” could be correct–though it seems unlikely.

          Also, in this case you should use e.g. (not i.e.). No big deal though, I knew what you meant.