Decisions, Decisions

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[Poll #1829502]

Comments

[sholio]

But there's no "none of the above" option! *g* I always spell it all one word, "dragonslayer".

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I thought of that...but I don't know.

[fahrbotdrusilla]

Yeah, this. I voted for the hyphenated one because this wasn't an option.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

LJ wouldn't let me vote for some reason, but in the absence of "dragonslayer" as an option I'll follow the crowd on this one...

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I did think of that. And your vote shows up!

It would make my RCMP/RCMD joke make more sense....

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

I thought about this VERY THING for about three whole days last year, and decided that as a title it should be Dragon Slayer. But as an epigram, Dragonslayer.

Owen the Dragon Slayer. Owen Dragonslayer.

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

(I wanted to add that my "should be" was very heavily based in the specific language/cultural world-building of New Asgard... not like in a Modern English Grammer Snob way.)

/nerd

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Well, it's never an epigram, so PROBLEM SOLVED. :)

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

I am obsessed with epigrams. Possibly because I want an awesome one, but it's bad karma to give oneself such a thing. For a while I was called Tess the Gold among my circle of friends, which would have been cool except it only happened bc some Other Person named Tess came to town, and she was Tess the Red. She was also crazy, which I knew before anybody else.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I love epigrams, but I don't really need them this time.

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

It's better that way. The narrator of Weight of Stars has... 4 names because of them. OY.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

In case I haven't said this lately, I LOVE IT ALREADY.

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

I think you only hyphenate if it's two adjectives and there's a noun coming after, so dragon-slayer would be wrong since "dragon" describes what's being killed and "slayer" is the person doing the killing, aka a noun (I'm assuming).

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I may or may not have got out my Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs as back up. I preferred "dragon slayer" to begin with, and I'm glad that's what people are going with.

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

As with a lot of other people, I'd do "dragonslayer" but as that's not an option, I'd go with "dragon slayer."

[shadadukal]

It just looks odd with an hyphen.

[samjohnsson.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking there's supposed to be a way to use it with the hyphen that makes sense, but I'm drawing a blank for an example.