First impwessions...in our primary schoolyard we used 'pax' when playing tagging games, can't really remember the rules except that announcing 'pax' meant 'I'm neutral & not fair game'.
In very progressive ChCh in the late 60s the peace sign in any form was seen as infra dig among the very cool cats, best left to adults posing as cool.
The hyphen in yod-dropping...I'm happy with it...beer-drinking, lace-making, dog-loving...
Thanks Hilary. The thing about those hyphens in beer-drinking etc is that they only belong there if the phrase is followed by a noun (beer-drinking lout, for example). But not if you say "I'm going to do some beer drinking tonight". Yod-dropping seems to get a hyphen no matter what. Then again, as someone much wiser than me said: "If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad."
Haha re the 'surely go mad'. Fair, but some of us trip over prose- writing daily where a hyphen would've prevented the trip. I would use a hyphen in those examples...I'm the one who would do the beer-drinking etc or else very, very briefly 'trip'. Love hyphens, me. I crave the compound noun or adjective.
First impwessions...in our primary schoolyard we used 'pax' when playing tagging games, can't really remember the rules except that announcing 'pax' meant 'I'm neutral & not fair game'.
In very progressive ChCh in the late 60s the peace sign in any form was seen as infra dig among the very cool cats, best left to adults posing as cool.
The hyphen in yod-dropping...I'm happy with it...beer-drinking, lace-making, dog-loving...
Thanks Hilary. The thing about those hyphens in beer-drinking etc is that they only belong there if the phrase is followed by a noun (beer-drinking lout, for example). But not if you say "I'm going to do some beer drinking tonight". Yod-dropping seems to get a hyphen no matter what. Then again, as someone much wiser than me said: "If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad."
Haha re the 'surely go mad'. Fair, but some of us trip over prose- writing daily where a hyphen would've prevented the trip. I would use a hyphen in those examples...I'm the one who would do the beer-drinking etc or else very, very briefly 'trip'. Love hyphens, me. I crave the compound noun or adjective.