• orphiebaby@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    It’s “first-hand”. English is stupid. Sometimes two words don’t become compound. Sometimes they do become compound and they’re just grafted together, like in German. And sometimes you use a hyphen. I’m really good at writing and I can’t always keep this shit straight.