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Subject:Re: online or on-line -(Preachment) From:Suzanne Townsend <ac158 -at- CCN -dot- CS -dot- DAL -dot- CA> Date:Thu, 8 Feb 1996 09:10:15 -0400
On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Bill Sullivan wrote:
> BTW, one the of mail order catalogs that sometimes reaches me has a
> tee-shirt that you could wear after confrontations like this. I
> believe the firm sells merchandise with ties to public television. I
> can't remember the exact phrasing of the thing, but it's something to
> the effect of Does Anal Retentive Need a Hyphen?
The way I saw it was:
Is "anal retentive" hyphenated?
(A: only when used as an adjective.)
But OTOH it doesn't really apply to "online" since you'd never use
"analretentive." Eh?
Suzanne Townsend <ac158 -at- ccn -dot- cs -dot- dal -dot- ca>
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"Stop pulling my foot."
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