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New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels (i.redd.it)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zoe@lemm.ee to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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The original was posted on /r/aboringdystopia by /u/Last_Salad_5080 on 2023-10-03 14:21:04.

https://medium.com/@chrisjeffrieshomelessromantic/new-study-54-of-american-adults-read-below-6th-grade-levels-70031328fda9

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[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The hyphen goes between grade and levels. Confidently incorrect.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is the feet pics thing working out for you?

[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Quite a few pictures. Most of them troll pictures.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All that does is make it extremely poorly written because of "sixth" followed by a compound noun instead of the misplaced hyphenation for a compound adjective.

What you basically just said is "it's not grammatically incorrect in that way, it's even more grammatically incorrect to the point of being nonsensical in this other, more abstruse way."

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

6th-grade levels

It's not that hard

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No shit. I was explaining to the person that thinks it should be "6th grade-levels" that would be even more nonsensical and grammatically incorrect.

For someone that seems to be critical of writing errors, you're shockingly bad at reading comprehension. All you are doing is quite literally repeating the sentiment of the initial comment in this thread.

It's not that hard.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You hyphenate the words acting as an adjective, I e. Two-gun kid, not two gun-kid

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One might also hyphenate compound nouns. Depending on context, "two gun-kids" could be correct--though it seems unlikely.

Also, in this case you should use e.g. (not i.e.). No big deal though, I knew what you meant.