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Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:16 am
by Minotaur029_Archive
POTENTIAL negatives from a HYPOTHETICAL situation.
Accept it...it's over.
Arguing with you is like pretending to play war with the kid who refuses to say the he was hit by the imaginary bullet. You've been hit. Now pretend to be dead already.
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:00 am
by Antero_Archive
Minotaur, you're getting spanked in an argument with Bob Rick. That's a sign for serious reassessment of your position, your debate tactics, and, like, your life. You should be feeling like you lost a fistfight when the "special" kid headbutted you with his helmet.
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:00 am
by scott_Archive
compound adjectives are hyphenated. my money's on college kid, there.
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:57 am
by lars_Archive
Rick Reuben wrote:Hyphen is wrong.
It's not wrong. In your examples, "attack ad" is not being used as a compound adjective.
In the phrase "attack-ad context," it is modifying "context." The hyphen is not necessarily required, but it's not incorrect. It's a judgment call on the author's part, for the sake of clarity.
As long as we're nitpicking the fuck out of everything.
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:05 am
by Wood Goblin_Archive
Lars and Scott are right. The example the Chicago Manual of Style gives is "tenure track" vs. "tenure-track position."
EDIT: I'm not sure whether the presence of the quotation marks affects hyphen usage. The CMoS appears to be silent on the issue.
Yes, I actually am sitting at my desk right now, consulting the CMoS. I am that much of a nerd.
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:07 am
by Foldyourarmsandsaynah_Archive
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:34 am
by lars_Archive
Rick Reuben wrote:He's describing an object- the attack ad. No need for a hyphen.
No, he's describing a context. The compound word "attack-ad" describes a specific context in which a separate term ("negatives") may or may not be used. As opposed to a debate context, or a television context, or a whatever-the-fuck context. Hyphen is a-OK. Like I said, it's a judgment call.
I have no idea what the quotes in the original post mean. But they aren't relevant to the application of the hyphen.
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:57 am
by caix_Archive
The fact that you're arguing about hyphens just plain stupid.
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:04 pm
by DrAwkward_Archive
caix wrote:The fact that you're arguing about hyphens just plain stupid.
You forgot "is."
Barack Obama Shouldn t Run in 08
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:10 pm
by Minotaur029_Archive
Rick Reuben wrote:Minotaur029 wrote:POTENTIAL negatives from a HYPOTHETICAL situation.
So you're saying that Obama has skeletons in his closet? If you think that, why are you picking him to beat Clinton? Aren't you worried that Hillary is going to plaster these imagined 'dangerously high negatives' all over the Chris Matthews show and torpedo his campaign?
Face it, dude. You babbled out your allegation that Obama had 'dangerously high negatives' when you didn't have a clue what they were, or even understand the meaning of the word 'negatives'. Run over to Kos and plagiarize something for us that makes partial sense. I haven't read that site yet today.
People, this just isn't true...the Kos part is completely false, and Rick Reuben is
completely out of his mind over the use of hyphens and the political term, "negatives."
Rick, stick to a topic you "know"...like 9/11. Oh wait, no one gives a shit.
Just watch RR come after me in post after post...if he wasn't threatened by me, he wouldn't devote a page to arguing over semantics. Don't let yourselves be pushed around by this douchebag. He's a damaging force far and away as far as accurate information is concerned. It's GWB style politicking.