01-11-2009, 08:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-11-2009, 08:21 AM by Jonathan Meer.)
I've been plotting an of-destruction for quite some time.
What is an of-destruction? It's when you forego the hideous preposition in order to create a new, hyphenated noun.
Reasons:
1) It's extraneous, and may drag baggage into a phrase with it (like articles, or possessive pronouns).
2) It lends itself to boring, stringy speech that lacks punch.
3) It looks weird.
It isn't possible for this extermination to be complete, as "of" has firmly rooted itself in our speech. Some sentences simply cannot be said without it. Nevertheless, our call as free people, who should always support peace and unity, is to remove such a middle-man from our nouns, and place them together, bound by that glorious and affable punctuation mark: the hyphen.
What is an of-destruction? It's when you forego the hideous preposition in order to create a new, hyphenated noun.
Reasons:
1) It's extraneous, and may drag baggage into a phrase with it (like articles, or possessive pronouns).
2) It lends itself to boring, stringy speech that lacks punch.
3) It looks weird.
It isn't possible for this extermination to be complete, as "of" has firmly rooted itself in our speech. Some sentences simply cannot be said without it. Nevertheless, our call as free people, who should always support peace and unity, is to remove such a middle-man from our nouns, and place them together, bound by that glorious and affable punctuation mark: the hyphen.
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