Re: I need some help!


"Gisele" <Gisele.26ye1e@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
Well, I don't see what one thing has to do with another. You still
need to know the parts of speech, noun, verb and adjective, to know
when to use follow up or follow-up/followup. Capping all drugs is
certainly not in the BOS. Workup has not had a hyphen for quite a
while, why should followup?

Gisele

I brought up capitalization of all drugs as another example of what some
transcriptionists will do when they don't know the difference between
generic and brand name drugs. I find this akin to the problem some have
with not knowing when to place the hyphen in a compound word (i.e., when
it's used as an adjective), and when to leave it out (i.e., noun or verb).

As regards "workup," this would not get a hyphen because it's not used as an
adjective.

Liz



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  • Re: I need some help!
    ... capitalization of all drugs, including generics. ... when to use follow up or follow-up/followup. ...
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  • Re: Spellex
    ... I never cared about the capitalization and using stedmans WP51 with that turned on meant one could not edit main dictionary. ... It was there for a good 5 years after the MTSO I worked for reported it, and way back then it was horrid -- you absolutely could not trust the capitalization on drugs, and you couldn't trust the spelling on drugs either more so than regular medical words. ...
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