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They meant "thinks-they're-technical", which might clear things up. Putting dashes between a bunch of words isn't really a correct way to do this, but it's a w
by kiddico 7y ago
They meant "thinks-they're-technical", which might clear things up.
Putting dashes between a bunch of words isn't really a correct way to do this, but it's a way to smash a bunch of words together and pretend it's one word. In this case an adjective describing the users.
- cgriswald 7y agoIt's perfectly cromulent to hyphenate words this way. Doing so causes them to become adjectives. For instance, you would say "fast-paced agenda," not "fast paced agenda," or "fast, paced agenda." The latter two have a different—and in this example, weird—meaning. In this case, I think it's a poor style choice, because there are two verbs and an adjective being combined, but there's nothing 'incorrect' about doing so. It might be clearer to say "users who think they are technical," but fixing the mixed pluralization and incorrect use of "their" would go a long way on their own.
- vokep 7y agoWhat you did there, it has been seen. :)
- CydeWeys 7y agoWhat? Hyphenated compound adjectives have been a standard feature of English for centuries: https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.asp https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.asp
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- JCharante 7y agoI suspect the trip-up was caused by mixing up their and they're.