tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post1769124925905346256..comments2024-02-19T07:51:46.118-05:00Comments on Throw Grammar from the Train: Copy editing: "Is blow job hyphenated?" Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173219179480606941noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-4262019869465834922014-11-22T08:16:38.506-05:002014-11-22T08:16:38.506-05:00Copy editors are also referred to as sub-editors i...Copy editors are also referred to as sub-editors in the magazine and newspaper industry....!!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.gramlee.com/" rel="nofollow">Copy editing services</a>Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04899864503489356330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-34454492297859096192014-07-13T23:50:34.382-04:002014-07-13T23:50:34.382-04:00"But as we all know, familiarity breeds hyphe..."But as we all know, familiarity breeds hyphen-free compounds." That's it! Exactly right! Email, website, blowjobs ... but still i don't like the look of a w right up next to a j. Call me what you will but i too prefer two words: blow job.Who Am Us Anyway?https://www.blogger.com/profile/08260586634760800759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-27897337688737274912014-07-13T20:20:04.436-04:002014-07-13T20:20:04.436-04:00"Blow job" is clearly a single word, a c..."Blow job" is clearly a single word, a compound made from two words, but that doesn't bear on the issue of whether it should be written with a space, a hyphen, or nothing between the two words that make up the single word compound. Writing the space there doesn't make it two words -- it's still just one word, though there are two words present, of course: the two that make up the compound.<br /><br />There are other, more interesting instances of the same issue, when parts have to be distinguished from wholes. Here's one: does English allow the subject of a sentence to be a single word? A syntactician would most likely say No. An example like "Larks migrate" has the noun phrase "larks" as subject, not a noun, but this noun phrase is made up of the single word "larks".<br /><br />Here's a still more interesting case. How many words are in "men and women" in the example phrase "old men and women", interpreted to mean that "old" applies to both "men" and "women"? The right answer, IMO, just one word, which is the noun "men and women". What is modified by an adjective must be a noun.Gregory Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293280236115306205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-26193741533678790712014-07-13T19:27:00.401-04:002014-07-13T19:27:00.401-04:00onewordonewordmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com