On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 03:45:53PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 15:30, Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2025-01-08 18:22, Simona Vetter wrote:
> > > Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding is that English generally doesn't do
> > > compound words connected with dashes, you just line them up with spaces.
> >
> > I hope you don't mind me jumping in, three native German speakers
> > discussing English grammar is merrier than just two. :)
> >
> > FWIW, LWN writes compound words with spaces when used as nouns ("code
> > in user space"), with dashes when used as adjectives ("user-space
> > code"). I don't know if this is an official / general rule, I'm using
> > it as a guideline though.
>
> To the extent that Australian counts as native English: yes, that's
> exactly the rule.
TIL, thanks a lot.
Pretty sure we never got around to this rule, and I had close to a decade
of English lessons. The one about commas I do remember from school though.
-Sima
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Simona Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
