I would say if it were an off-season vacation, it would be hyphenated. But it doesn't feel right as an adjective and a noun. Would have to check the Chicago Manual of Style to know. But the older I get the more I decide spelling, usage, grammar and style are what I want them to be rather than fixed in stone.
now that's my kinda writer...you have your own language...takes a lifetime to find that....Matisse made up his own colors...he said the goal of the artist is to create a new language...
The techie in me sees it as an object (term?) and therefore I fall on the side wanting a single (hyphenated) word for parsing reasons. The sentence says 'They call it off' as I parse it, and then 'season' doesn't fit. I guess it's just the way my brain works.
Wouldn't it be 'off-season' (dashed)? Just wondering. You're the expert.
ReplyDeleteI would say if it were an off-season vacation, it would be hyphenated. But it doesn't feel right as an adjective and a noun. Would have to check the Chicago Manual of Style to know. But the older I get the more I decide spelling, usage, grammar and style are what I want them to be rather than fixed in stone.
ReplyDeletenow that's my kinda writer...you have your own language...takes a lifetime to find that....Matisse made up his own colors...he said the goal of the artist is to create a new language...
ReplyDeleteChicago Manual of Wild
ReplyDeletethat's no compownd ajitive
jist a simple modifier
a weather-sensitive note that gives
a call to hearth and fire
both sides now
The techie in me sees it as an object (term?) and therefore I fall on the side wanting a single (hyphenated) word for parsing reasons. The sentence says 'They call it off' as I parse it, and then 'season' doesn't fit. I guess it's just the way my brain works.
ReplyDeleteBilly's poem is the best though...