On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:03:48PM -0500, Rajeev Thakur wrote:
I will just add that if you go to www.dictionary.com and look up "nonbelligerent", it doesn't have a hyphen. In the left column, under "Browse nearby entries" you can scroll through a boat load of "non" words that don't have a hyphen. If you look up http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonbelligerent, at the bottom it shows the MLA style and APA style also without the hyphen. yes, but this whole thing is very ambiguous. I entered non-blocking at www.dictionary.com which was not found, but the "Reference suggestions" show all three ways of writing it (1 x nonblocking, 1 x non blocking and 3 x non-blocking). And try to click on "non blocking" - it leads to a webpage with that only lists non-blocking. This is very unclear to me.
Do you know a way to access MLA or APA online? This is getting interesting! I don't even know a rule how to do this in German. It would be interesting to know if there is a rule in English. Actually, try "cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep blocking" on your machine (not that this would mean anything more). I guess we will have (an amusing) vote on this in Chicago! All the Best, Torsten -- bash$ :(){ :|:&};: --------------------- http://www.unixer.de/ ----- Torsten Hoefler | Postdoctoral Researcher Open Systems Lab | Indiana University 150 S. Woodlawn Ave. | Bloomington, IN, 474045, USA Lindley Hall Room 135 | +01 (812) 855-3608