Opened 7 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#43784 closed enhancement (invalid)
No space between two words in a sentence on Media Setting page.
Reported by: | pratikthink | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | minor | Version: | 2.7 |
Component: | Text Changes | Keywords: | has-screenshots has-patch |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
See at the Uploading Files(bottom) option on media setting page. There is a checkbox - "Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders". I think there should be a space between year- and based
and I want to know why hyphens added to months and years.
Thank you.
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Change History (8)
#1
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7 years ago
Hi @pratikthink, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the report.
The sentence is correct as is. "Year-based" is an adjective with the -based suffix. In "month-based", the suffix is omitted to avoid repetition.
It could probably be simplified to "date-based folders", but that seems a bit less clear. Otherwise I don't see a need for changes here.
#2
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7 years ago
- Focuses docs removed
- Keywords ui-feedback removed
I think we should remove the hyphen after the word month. If we’re removing the word ‘based’ as the suffix for month, the hyphen seems grammatically incorrect on its own.
#3
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7 years ago
- Keywords has-patch needs-testing added
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release
- Severity changed from normal to minor
- Version changed from 4.9.5 to 2.7
Added 43784.diff which removes the unnecessary hyphen from the word month
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#5
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7 years ago
Replying to danieltj:
I think we should remove the hyphen after the word month. If we’re removing the word ‘based’ as the suffix for month, the hyphen seems grammatically incorrect on its own.
Today I learned that multiple hyphenated compound modifiers are a thing and are grammatically correct, see here:
Special rules apply when multiple compound nouns with the same "head" are used together, often with a conjunction (and with hyphens and commas if they are needed).
The third- and fourth-grade teachers met with the parents.
Both full- and part-time employees will get raises this year.
We don't see many 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children around here.
#6
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7 years ago
- Keywords 2nd-opinion needs-testing removed
- Milestone Future Release deleted
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
As much as I hate to admit it because it looks so wrong having a lone hyphen like that, it seems to be correct English. For what it's worth, this seems to be known as a suspended hyphen.
The standard way to deal with this in English is your second example, "off- or on-topic". Another example of where the hyphen would be preserved for both forms of the hyphenated word might be pre- and post-
The pre- and post-match responses of the soccer fans were markedly different.
Thanks @netweb
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