documentate!!

[Wilson Gray]

On Mar 28, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Barbara Need wrote:

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> Poster:       Barbara Need <nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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>> I just got back the copy edited version of a book I'm writing in
>> which the
>> copyeditor decided that my use of "in a solicitation to murder case"
>> should
>> be changed into a verbal expression, "to solicitate a murder."
>> Obviously I'm
>> objecitating to this monstrous change. But maybe that's they way the
>> -ate
>> movement is going these days.
>>
>> Roger Shuy
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> Would like it better with hyphens: "in a solicitation-to-murder case"?
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> Barbara
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I agree with you, Barb. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that the hyphen is
going the way of the dinosaur. Except, of-course, in those environments
in which we would-never-use one.

-Wilson