New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels - eviltoast
      • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        If it were a simulation or real what would be the difference? I mean if you could replicate the titanic down to the atom you effectively have the original. Same philosophical “problem” with teleportation of a human being.

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        All that does is make it extremely poorly written because of “sixth” followed by a compound noun instead of the misplaced hyphenation for a compound adjective.

        What you basically just said is “it’s not grammatically incorrect in that way, it’s even more grammatically incorrect to the point of being nonsensical in this other, more abstruse way.”

          • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            No shit. I was explaining to the person that thinks it should be “6th grade-levels” that would be even more nonsensical and grammatically incorrect.

            For someone that seems to be critical of writing errors, you’re shockingly bad at reading comprehension. All you are doing is quite literally repeating the sentiment of the initial comment in this thread.

            It’s not that hard.

        • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          One might also hyphenate compound nouns. Depending on context, “two gun-kids” could be correct–though it seems unlikely.

          Also, in this case you should use e.g. (not i.e.). No big deal though, I knew what you meant.