On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:42:45PM -0700, Bronis R. de Supinski wrote:

Rajeev and Torsten:

I believe that Rajeev is correct. The Chicago Manual of Style passge that Torsten cited is not germane. It deals with whether you are supposed to add hyphens to adjective/ noun combinations that are being used as adjectives, e.g., "graduate student" (instead of "graduate-student") in graduate student housing. It has nothing to do with hyphenating compound words or words that are synthesized by adding well defined prefixes to existing words.

ok, I capitulate with the hyphen :). But after reading CMS 7.90 and 8.170, http://amaediting.blogspot.com/2008/07/hyphenated-prefixes.html and http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/Hyphens.html , and talking to more native speakers, I would say that everything seems to be evolving to closed prefixes. So as weird as it looks, I'd propose "nonblocking" as the way to go (I guess I should like it as a German). Any opinions on this? Best, Torsten -- bash$ :(){ :|:&};: --------------------- http://www.unixer.de/ ----- "Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." -- Wernher von Braun