Bro WTF. *Lies!

You need a freaking hyphen in that title!

🧐 you forgot to hyphenate.
Edit, also don't capitalize.

No, you're not blind. You're right it should be included somewhere somehow, but it's a standard by Unicode. Here's a full list:

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

You'd basically just use the shortcode, replacing any underscores or spaces with a hyphen.

©️ 💁‍♂️

Unfortunately it looks like there are some slight variations between the list we're using and the list at ^that page, but they're pretty close.

She makes an error in the third sentence she says. Hyphens are not used to break the word at the end of a sentence. They're used to break a word at the end of a line. This woman is no nazi when it comes to grammar.

ooooooo??!
BUURNED!@nock

(WIF is Flappybirds and more importantly, WGAF??!!)

Oh and Payback, remember next time to write it like a 13-yr-old girl would say it:

'ACT-ually.'
(hyphen added, signifying arrogantly-inflected slight pause) delivered as droll and self-satisfied as possible, averting eyes with irritated look

what seems weird about the usa as an outsider is how you are american if you are caucasian but if you are not then you are a hyphenated american. african-american, native american. Maybe its because I come from a country with the population of one of your states and the fact that we got rid of racist logos decades ago (see gollywogs) but sometimes you guys seem a little behind the times...not that I'm from a utopia or anything.

"What's a natgeo-warrior?"
"Whats it mean to be Gene-born?"
"Rage-hosted?"

Yeah I guess that last one could explain Rollin's speaking style, but otherwise the hyphenation in this title makes it totally unreadable.



Had no idea what any of that meant until reading the tags!

Interesting. It's caused by the hyphen in G-bar's username.

I'm not going to spend any time to fix it because this method of quoting will no longer exist in v5.

Thanks!

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There's a comment here that's breaking quoting.

Spider-Man (note the hyphen).

Hyphens are important. This is a Bird-Eating Goliath Spider, not a Goliath Bird eating a spider.

@JiggaJonson

Oh, that horrible crushing balled-up stomach feeling you get when you double-down, drop that almighty trump, the Expert Card, and then you make a mistake. Ugh.

You're right: "personal effects" was correct and "personal affects" means little. Don't know where my brain was.

I can at least reclaim a mote of dignity:
I never said that it's "never used as a verb."

You didn't use those words, but you did say:
Incorrect, you can not "effect" anything. Again, it's a noun. (and "cannot" is one word)

And that amounts to the same thing. It cannot be a verb if it's a noun, and you certainly can "effect" something.

The "comma" comment was about the comma between "others" and "effected": My personal effects and the effects of my person on others, effected other effects.

Hyphenation in English has quite a lot of variability, and there are no hard and fast (hard-and-fast?) rules governing how to write all compound words. A single compound word, even could have two different correct ways of writing it, in which case, only consistency counts. "Anal retentive" is one of the words that has no permanent form, and in fact might change from one sentence to another. For example, if it's used attributively (before the noun it modifies), you should probably hyphenate it ("I have an anal-retentive boss"), but if it's used predicatively (after a verb, modifying the subject), you might not hyphenate it ("My boss is anal retentive."), though "anally retentive" is probably a better choice there. In fact, if you're a real anal retainer about hyphenation, you can choose always to use "anally retentive" which is never hyphenated, or just "anal".

@messenger

"You said I was wrong, and "effect" is never a verb."
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I said you were wrong, I never said that it's "never used as a verb." You've quoted most (all?) of my posts so we can be relatively certain they are not edited.
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"you talk about "personal effects". This is meaningless."
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You sure about that?
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/personal+effects
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal%20effects
http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/personal-effects/
https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0501130430
For someone with English as THE major focus of their life for the past 12 years, I'm very surprised you have never heard of the phrase "personal effects."
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*increases bullshit radar's maximum power*
So, you're telling me that the focus of your life has revolved around the English language and the phrase "personal effects" is meaningless?
*bullshit radar bursts into flames*
kay...
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In your second sentence, you have all the "effect"s and "affect"s backwards. A correct sentence could be:
My personal affects (things I own) and the effects of my person on others effected (caused to happen) other affects (moods/emotions).
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Negative; the sentence isn't all backwards.

My personal effects (noun, see definitions' links above) and the effects of my person (noun, I did get this wrong in the original) on others affected (verb form, the definition for the noun form doesn't make sense in this context [not at all]) other effects (in this case, I suppose you could possibly use affect as a noun, but its use in the language is arguably near extinction today).
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Also, no comma between a subject and verb.
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What is this^ in reference to?
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Finally, you still seem confused on which word to use. We can't have someone's life's work done poorly now can we? I recommend you practice which word to use by reading up on the subject at the Purdue Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/660/01/
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After studying, you can test your affectiveness effectiveness (see what I did there?) at their use by trying the sample exercises provided by the same site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/4/24/42/
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Here are some other sources that may help you better understand your own life's work:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/affect-versus-effect.aspx
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/2005/08/effect_as_a_ver.html
http://www.esm.ucsb.edu/academics/documents/grammar_style.pdf
http://www.writersblock.ca/tips/monthtip/tipsep99a.htm
http://prpost.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/raven-remember-affect-is-a-verb-and-effect-is-a-noun-usually/
http://imgi.uibk.ac.at/mmetgroup/MMet_imgi/tools/mayfield/affect.htm <-- the most precise and concise source I could find
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p.s.
Does anal retentive have a hyphen in it?

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Yeah, I think the URL is being broken because its too long for the UI. Link shortened should fix that.>> ^ant:
>> ^longde:
No, I don't mind; money is the primary reason.
I don't see how it's our laws that allow this to happen. I think pressure from US companies and US import laws probably helped to raise working condition, at least a little, rather than the opposite.>> ^marinara:
I really doubt a countryside life is really that hard. more like they need cash so bad. theres' a small difference, i hope you don't mind me pointing it out.
and foxxconn is probably better than a lot of companies.
remember, it's our laws for international trade that allow these people to exploit workers in china.
oh and i tried to fix my link
http://blog.videosift.com/marinara/Truly-Great-Story
-On-NY-Times-Today-About-Ameri
can-Jobs
i'm actually having some problems with the videosift site so i'm not sure if it works


Use tinyurl.com. I don't think VS like hyphens/dashes. @dag: Any ideas?

>> ^longde:

No, I don't mind; money is the primary reason.
I don't see how it's our laws that allow this to happen. I think pressure from US companies and US import laws probably helped to raise working condition, at least a little, rather than the opposite.>> ^marinara:
I really doubt a countryside life is really that hard. more like they need cash so bad. theres' a small difference, i hope you don't mind me pointing it out.
and foxxconn is probably better than a lot of companies.
remember, it's our laws for international trade that allow these people to exploit workers in china.
oh and i tried to fix my link
http://blog.videosift.com/marinara/Truly-Great-Story
-On-NY-Times-Today-About-American-Jobs
i'm actually having some problems with the videosift site so i'm not sure if it works



Use tinyurl.com. I don't think VS like hyphens/dashes. @dag: Any ideas?