to password-protect

[Ron Butters]

this calls-for some field-work

Sent from my Droid Charge on Verizon 4GLTE

------Original Message------
From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:45:08 PM GMT-0500
Subject: Re: [ADS-L] to password-protect

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Observe the lack of a hyphen.

People don't use hyphens, anymore, unless they're intending to
"log-in" or to "log-off" or are informing you that "Your software is
up-to-date."

It drives me *crazy*! Either insert hyphens everywhere, don't insert
them anywhere, or insert them and leave them out according to some
prescriptivist schema. Stop messing with my mind!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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