Re: I need some help!

I personally think it takes more "smarts" to remember the correct
spelling/usage of followup vs follow up than by making it easy and sticking
a hyphen in there just so you don't have to think, i.e. follow-up

The BOS actually says that follow-up is acceptable as an adjective though
there are some services that use follow up for the verb and followup for adj
such as followup visit, and followup as a noun, i.e. the patient will return
for her followup in 2 weeks.

I find in doing QA that people just get these confused, so my conclusion is
that if you could just stick that hyphen in there, it would make it easier.

The language is trying to get away from the hyphen in follow-up and in doing
so, many are having problems remembering the rules that apply, SO by saying
dummies who think that it is easier to take out the hyphen, I just have not
seen it in instances of QA because most just mess up the meaning of each
because they have a problem remembering the rule. There are some who will
stick that hyphen in there because they won't look up the rule that applies
so stick it in figuring it will be okay, WHICH it really is except for those
who just stick that hyphen in there for the verb and that is incorrect.

Workup has the same rule essentially as followup.


"Liz" <lizhug1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gisele, while I respect your opinion as always, I must disagree with your
stance on this one. Yes, English is an ever evolving language, but
sorry..."followup" is the perfect example of the dumbing of America, akin
to capitalization of all drugs, including generics. IOW, making it
legitimate to put "follow" and "up" together as one word just excuses
those dummies who don't know when it's correct to use a hyphen.

"Gisele" <Gisele.26y2e6@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know where anyone got the idea that they had some guarantee that
the rules of punctuation and grammar would never change in their
lifetime. If that were true, we would still be speaking the language
of Geoffrey Chaucer! Not every change is a dumbing down of the
language or a signal of the decline of civilization, folks. If you
don't like the BOS, find a different reference and become familiar with
it. I don't know of any language reference that hasn't gone through
several editions, though, so what are you going to do? You can keep up
with the small changes that happen over the years, or you can ignore the
whole issue for a decade and then just throw up your hands and declare
that you refuse to learn anything new.

This is far afield of Ed's problem with moronic QA, of course, but it's
just something I cannot understand. English is a living, organic thing.
Styles in punctuation do change, new words are coined, and we learn
them. Or we don't.

Gisele


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