Forum:Edit conflict

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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)

Dark haired and skinned might flow better. Jubilex (talk) 21:35, 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)

The other user insist my version is not correct. At first i thought it was a typo, but later i didn't maintain that it was wrong. I think my version is more non-native friendly. I'm not a native English speaker, and this left hyphen hanging in mid air with the meaning of "dark" jumping an "and" is quite obscure English syntax.--Quantum Immortal (talk) 23:52, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

beater now? Beater? How impressive.

Quantum Immortal, your poor English comprehension makes it impossible to talk to you. I never said that your rewrite was incorrect, just unnecessary; as Scorchgeek just explained to you again, "dark-skinned and -haired" is acceptable, you just weren't familiar with it (what a surprise!) - it's not obscure at all.

This is not Simple English NethackWiki, and frankly, the writing here doesn't need to be dumbed down to accommodate you - instead, your ability needs to come up. I won't travel to your country and start "editing" your road signs simply because I'm too ignorant to read them, and that is because I am not a jackass. I can't believe you told another user "And why should they read it, if they think they alredy know how teleporters work?" Wow.