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It was a marketing datasheet, so to misquote Chinatown: "Forget it
Chris. It's Marketing."
A happy ending though (unlike Chinatown)--they agreed to rewrite their
heading to Traceability Across the Product.
Chris
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Keith Hood <bus -dot- write -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Is there more than one kind of product traceability? Like, is there
> Across-the-product traceability and also just-some-part-of-product
> traceability? If not, the heading should be nothing but "Traceability". No
> need to waste keystrokes to add a specification that isn't necessary.
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:39 PM, kafkascampi <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> I was reviewing a datasheet that had the following heading:
>>
>> Across the Product Traceability
>>
>> I argued that it should be Across-the-Product Traceability for ease of
>> reading and because it is a compound/phrasal adjective. If you don't
>> hyphenate it, it appears as Across the [Product Traceability] as
>> opposed to [Across the Product] Traceability.
>>
>> And if it appeared after the noun, one would not hyphenate it, thus
>> "Traceability Across the Product". I think that is actually the best
>> answer.
>>
>> What say you, grammarians?
>>
>> Chris
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