Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The tables, they turn

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• WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The great journalism of “Homeless Romantic” has really been in decline.

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• Surp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is all just a simulation.

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  • Rognaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what the lizard people want you to think!

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  • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it were a simulation or real what would be the difference?

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• PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The hyphen goes between grade and levels. Confidently incorrect.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is the feet pics thing working out for you?

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    • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Quite a few pictures. Most of them troll pictures.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You hyphenate the teeth acting as an adjective, I e. Two-gun kid, not two gun-kid

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    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You also hyphenate compound nouns. Depending on context, “two gun-kids” could be correct. Though, it seems unlikely.

      Also, in this case you should use e.g. (not i.e.). No big deal though, I knew what you meant.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All that does is make it extremely poorly written because of “sixth” followed by a compound noun instead of the misplaced hyphenation for a compound adjective.

    What you basically just said is “it’s not grammatically incorrect that way, it’s even more grammatically incorrect to the point of being nonsensical in this other, more abstruse way.”

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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      6th-grade levels

      It’s not that hard

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      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No shit. I was explaining to the person that thinks it should be “6th grade-levels” why that is even more nonsensical.

        For someone that seems critical of writing errors, you’re shockingly bad at reading comprehension. It’s not that hard.

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