[ANSTHRLD] online armorials (was: "Book of the Herald" wiki)

Druinne de Salesberie druinne at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 12:04:02 PDT 2009


Thanks, Daniel.  I was clearly half asleep when I missed putting in
those hyphens.
DdS

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Tim McDaniel<tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Childers, Jeff <Jeff.Childers at ttuhsc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Druinne:
>>
>> > If we can get more period style armory out there in front of
>> > people, we tend to get better submissions.  Of course, the normal
>> > caveats apply about later period marshalled to the teeth armory.
>>
>> What is teeth armory?
>
> It's an illustration of _why_ "anal retentive" is hyphenated when used
> as a compound adjective.  Mr. Pedantic Grammar Person would have
> written
>
> "Of course, the normal caveats apply about late-period
> marshalled-to-the-teeth armory."
>
> Daniel de Lindo
> --
> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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