Re: Including JAR files in Eclipse 4.2, specifically Rome (RSS Feed parser)
Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
Lew wrote:
lipska the kat wrote:
Lew wrote:
You are guilty of straw-man argumentation, lipska.
It's spelled straw man, no hyphen
Incorrect. The hyphen is needed when a unit modifier (like "straw man" i=
n this case)
precedes the noun modified.
Many use it without hyphen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/straw+man
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straw%20man
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/straw%2Bman?=
q=straw+man
None of those address the issue of unit modifiers that precede the noun mod=
ified.
You missed my point entirely.
Any compound phrase, like "straw man" or "fully realized", is spelled witho=
ut a hyphen when
it is in a standalone position in a sentence, that is, not used as an adjec=
tive preceding the noun.
When used as a unit modifier prior to a noun, it's hyphenated.
"The fallacy there is straw man."
"It is a straw-man argument."
"The project will be profitable once it is fully realized."
"Somehow the fully-realized project never made a profit."
So while it is true that "straw man" is spelled without a hyphen when the h=
yphen is
not required, that has no bearing on the misspelling that I called out.
I promise I will not try to correct you on fine points of non-English gramm=
ar.
--
Lew