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[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Does it change if there are double hyphens?

• The co-sign of the loan was ill advised. The ill-advised co-sign will cost her.

That was just mean-spirited.

[dtb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
The Supreme Court ruling was highly publicized. The highly-publicized Supreme Court ruling requires that suspects who are in custody receive information regarding their rights.

It depends on whether it is modifying a noun or not. I'm sure dtb will provide greater detail and clarity, but that is the short of it.

Oooh. So close. That is the rule for other compound adjectives (if it comes at the end of a sentence, no need for hyphen); however, the "ly" rule is true no matter where the compound appears in the sentence.

Really, people; how much is it to ask that you read the Chicago Manual of Stlye chapters on punctuation from cover to cover and memorize them?


(I feel like Hermione Granger.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by dtb
NO HYPHENS ON COMPOUND ADJECTIVES WHERE THE FIRST PART OF THE COMPOUND IS AN ADVERB ENDING IN "LY"

Now, is that so hard?

Ok, Owen.

[dtb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Ok, Owen.

WhoTF is Owen?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by dtb
WhoTF is Owen?

Meany, IIRC.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Meany, IIRC.

Ah. OK. All I could think of was "Wilson" and it did not compute.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by dtb
Ah. OK. All I could think of was "Wilson" and it did not compute.

What is it about Owen Wilson. i saw the wedding crashers last week and i just adore Owen Wilson and I can't figure out why.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by dtb
Ah. OK. All I could think of was "Wilson" and it did not compute.

2.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by dtb
Ah. OK. All I could think of was "Wilson" and it did not compute.

It wouldn't compute. I can't see Owen Wilson getting worked up about anything, let alone a hyphen.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

I saw Broken Flowers last night and it was really quite excellent. For a slow-moving Bill Murray movie, it is way better than Lost in Translation.

[dtb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I saw Broken Flowers last night and it was really quite excellent. For a slow-moving Bill Murray movie, it is way better than Lost in Translation.

Really? I enjoyed LiT much more than Broken Flowers. I thought Broken Flowers was rather slow.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by dtb
Ah. OK. All I could think of was "Wilson" and it did not compute.

I bought a bunch of Ryan Adams discs over the weekend and happened upon that tune they play throughout Old School - the one where he sings “When you’re young you get sad...” I shouldn’t listen to that on the train. I really shouldn’t listen to it five times on repeat. It was all I could do not to turn around and take the train right back home...

“Hi, Honey... Yeh. You’re going to be working a little bit harder from now on... You can hack the next few mortgage payments, right?”

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by dtb
Really? I enjoyed LiT much more than Broken Flowers. I thought Broken Flowers was rather slow.

Yes, it was slow, but it didn't bug me.

I think it's entirely possible that I want to have one thousand of Bill Murray's babies and I viewed Scarlett Johanssen as competition - so that could have been why LiT did not do much for me.* I liked the hug at the end though.


*This doesn't make much sense because Broken Flowers is chock-full of women - potential competition. But none of them are (is? - damn) Scarlett. haha.

Originally posted by dtb
Really? I enjoyed LiT much more than Broken Flowers. I thought Broken Flowers was rather slow.

Anyone who hasn't seen "The Aristocrats" should do so at once. If only for the Christopher Walken impression, which is not to imply that the rest of the movie is not funny as hell, which it is. Funny. As hell. The rest of the movie.

I forget who here invented liking the Christopher Walken impression from "The Aristocrats" but to them I say mad props, big up, love the sistahs, etc.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
*This doesn't make much sense because Broken Flowers is chock-full of women - potential competition. But none of them are (is? - damn) Scarlett. haha.

Translation: I don't consider myself a cougar -- yet.