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-_- Any one has a problem with the English of this phrase? (there's an edit conflict with some one).--[[User:Quantum Immortal|Quantum Immortal]] ([[User talk:Quantum Immortal|talk]]) 19:57, 30 September 2015 (UTC) | -_- Any one has a problem with the English of this phrase? (there's an edit conflict with some one).--[[User:Quantum Immortal|Quantum Immortal]] ([[User talk:Quantum Immortal|talk]]) 19:57, 30 September 2015 (UTC) | ||
| − | :: The issue, as I understand it, was that it previously said "red-eyed, dark-skinned and -haired humanoid" and you chose to add the "dark" to make "dark-haired" and make it more explicit. As the other user was saying, the previous version was ''correct'', but so is yours. This is a matter of style, and personally given the other guidelines in the style guide, I would prefer your more explicit version. The Wikipedia manual of style, which is suggested as good by NetHackWiki's own style guide, also prefers this usage: "A hanging hyphen is used when two compound modifiers are separated (two- and three-digit numbers; a ten-car or -truck convoy; ''sloping right- or leftward, but better is sloping rightward or leftward'')" (my emphasis). | + | :: The issue, as I understand it, was that it previously said "red-eyed, dark-skinned and -haired humanoid" and you chose to add the "dark" to make "dark-haired" and make it more explicit. As the other user was saying, the previous version was ''correct'', but so is yours. This is a matter of style, and personally given the other guidelines in the style guide, I would prefer your more explicit version. The Wikipedia manual of style, which is suggested as good by NetHackWiki's own style guide, also prefers this usage: "A hanging hyphen is used when two compound modifiers are separated (two- and three-digit numbers; a ten-car or -truck convoy; ''sloping right- or leftward, but better is sloping rightward or leftward'')" (my emphasis). --[[User:Scorchgeek|Scorchgeek]] ([[User talk:Scorchgeek|talk]]) 23:20, 30 September 2015 (UTC) |
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- "The D&D Asmodeus is a handsome, red-eyed, dark-skinned and dark-haired humanoid bearing two small horns and clad in very expensive clothing."
-_- Any one has a problem with the English of this phrase? (there's an edit conflict with some one).--Quantum Immortal (talk) 19:57, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
- The issue, as I understand it, was that it previously said "red-eyed, dark-skinned and -haired humanoid" and you chose to add the "dark" to make "dark-haired" and make it more explicit. As the other user was saying, the previous version was correct, but so is yours. This is a matter of style, and personally given the other guidelines in the style guide, I would prefer your more explicit version. The Wikipedia manual of style, which is suggested as good by NetHackWiki's own style guide, also prefers this usage: "A hanging hyphen is used when two compound modifiers are separated (two- and three-digit numbers; a ten-car or -truck convoy; sloping right- or leftward, but better is sloping rightward or leftward)" (my emphasis). --Scorchgeek (talk) 23:20, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
