tags 508903 + pending
thanks

Hi Justin,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:36:44PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> > I'm accepting all of your suggestions with minor modifications: why
> > hyphen easy-to-use?
> Because it's functioning as an attributive compound modifier; "this
> text editor is easy to use" but "an easy-to-use text editor".  See
> "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Compound_modifiers"; or
> "http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/compounds.htm";.  Mind you,
> they certainly aren't compulsory, if you think it would look better
> without them.

I was just making sure, thanks for clarifying. The hyphens are back in
SVN. :)

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