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| Psi:
haha, point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer :-+ Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha, point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer :-+ --- End quote --- I think that this is one of the occasions where the readers have to take the blame for mental sloppiness, not the writer for careless presentation. :) |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha, point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer :-+ Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited --- End quote --- I agree with Cerebus: your original spelling was totally fine. :) |
| Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 21, 2021, 07:49:19 pm --- --- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha, point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer :-+ Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited --- End quote --- I agree with Cerebus: your original spelling was totally fine. :) --- End quote --- True - it was more of a reception issue than a transmitting one, though I generally refer to the tubing as 'heat shrink' and the little metal radiator things as 'heatsinks', so my inclination is to read a long word beginning with 'heats' and ending with 'ink' as heatsink. In the grand scheme of things, it was amusing. -Pat |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on December 21, 2021, 08:09:21 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on December 21, 2021, 07:49:19 pm --- --- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha, point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer :-+ Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited --- End quote --- I agree with Cerebus: your original spelling was totally fine. :) --- End quote --- True - it was more of a reception issue than a transmitting one, though I generally refer to the tubing as 'heat shrink' and the little metal radiator things as 'heatsinks', so my inclination is to read a long word beginning with 'heats' and ending with 'ink' as heatsink. In the grand scheme of things, it was amusing. -Pat --- End quote --- I just tried saying a sentence out loud with "the irradiated polyolefin tubing that contracts when heated" in it, and speaking I say "heatshrink", all one word. It's one of those occasions where I would accept any of "heat shrink", "heat-shrink" or "heatshrink" as legitimate orthography. If I was writing a style guide I'd probably opt for the hyphenated version for clarity, purely based on our experiences here. Still, the original brain-fart gave me a giggle, and that's the best you can ask for, most days. |
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