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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ironic that there's a grammatical error in the headline... 6th-grade levels, surely

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

77% of Americans write below 9th grade-levels, and hyphens are taught as an elective.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You’re right, this is a glass-half-full situation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

The tables, they turn

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The great journalism of "Homeless Romantic" has really been in decline.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is all just a simulation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's what the lizard people want you to think!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If it were a simulation or real what would be the difference? I mean if you could replicate the titanic down to the atom you effectively have the original. Same philosophical “problem” with teleportation of a human being.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The hyphen goes between grade and levels. Confidently incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is the feet pics thing working out for you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Quite a few pictures. Most of them troll pictures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

All that does is make it extremely poorly written because of "sixth" followed by a compound noun instead of the misplaced hyphenation for a compound adjective.

What you basically just said is "it's not grammatically incorrect in that way, it's even more grammatically incorrect to the point of being nonsensical in this other, more abstruse way."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

6th-grade levels

It's not that hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No shit. I was explaining to the person that thinks it should be "6th grade-levels" that would be even more nonsensical and grammatically incorrect.

For someone that seems to be critical of writing errors, you're shockingly bad at reading comprehension. All you are doing is quite literally repeating the sentiment of the initial comment in this thread.

It's not that hard.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You hyphenate the words acting as an adjective, I e. Two-gun kid, not two gun-kid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One might also hyphenate compound nouns. Depending on context, "two gun-kids" could be correct--though it seems unlikely.

Also, in this case you should use e.g. (not i.e.). No big deal though, I knew what you meant.