flying_wotsit

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In that example, it should have been first-hand or firsthand. When multiple words are used together as an adjective, in this case an adjective-noun pair, those two should become hyphenated. I just wrote another example – it’s ‘adjective-noun’ because the two words are used as an adjective for pair, even though they would not ordinarily be hyphenated.

  For the same reason, asking “is it ‘first hand’ or ‘first-hand’” would be meaningless, because it depends on the context, unless a stylistic choice is made to write ‘firsthand’ instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Declaration of war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my mid 20s and a woman and I found out recently that the skinny jeans I’ve been wearing for the last decade have supposedly been uncool the whole time. I don’t care. Style is personal, and I like them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨something something spaceflight something...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maximum dynamic pressure. At max q, the mechanical stress on a spacecraft stops increasing and starts decreasing. If a spacecraft is going to blow up, it usually does so before max q.

  Not sure how to make that apply here 🧐