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

• 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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