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Friday, May 30, 2008

Oh copyeditor, my copyeditor ... Why hyphens are so necessary:

On Shine, a Yahoo! site that posts a variety of stuff from health care to entertainment, I saw this blurb that functioned as a link:

Do you love or fear Jillian Michaels, the bad ass trainer from the Biggest Loser with the in-your-resistant-sobbing-face attitude and biceps of steel?

Now, from what I've seen, Jillian turns bad asses into good asses, so why is she a bad ass trainer??? It can't be that the author of this sentence was afraid of hyphens, as shown by the five-word compound modifier!!

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