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Does the bold part lack punctuation?

 
 
Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 03:10 am
Four students are crammed into a 160 sq m cabin on the campus of Beihang University, testing the limits of humans' ability to live in a self-contained space.

Does the bold part lack punctuation?

Thanks.
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 03:48 am
@tanguatlay,
No punctuation needed.
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centrox
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 05:12 am
Personally, I would have written "a 160-square-metre cabin". That is, in the compound phrase "number-square-metre", the words in full, and joined by hyphens. If a compound phrase (number + noun) serves as an adjective and comes before the noun it modifies, it usually needs hyphens:

a three-and-a-half-bathroom home
a four-bedroom townhouse
a 600-square-foot studio
a 2,000-square-foot, fully renovated four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom home

Note: Americans usually write "meter".

centrox
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 10:24 am
A person who is a fool and a coward hiding behind a mask of anonymity thumbed me down, yet what I wrote is still true.
tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 11:57 am
@centrox,
centrox wrote:

A person who is a fool and a coward hiding behind a mask of anonymity thumbed me down, yet what I wrote is still true.

Hi centrox,

What you have posted above shouldn't be here. Am I right?
centrox
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 12:11 pm
@tanguatlay,
tanguatlay wrote:
What you have posted above shouldn't be here. Am I right?

You are not right.

tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 12:27 pm
@centrox,
centrox wrote:

tanguatlay wrote:
What you have posted above shouldn't be here. Am I right?

You are not right.

I don't see any anonymous poster here.
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centrox
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 12:33 pm
tanguatlay wrote:
I don't see any anonymous poster here.

I wrote:
Whoever thumbed down my post did so anonymously.

https://images2.imgbox.com/c2/eb/N6EMy7pP_o.jpg

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tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 02:03 pm
Thanks for pointing out what you meant. I can understand why you are upset.





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Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 02:53 pm
@centrox,
centrox, I restored your thumb. Everything you said is correct.

I don't know if it's the same person, but someone often votes me down on the beautiful animals thread. Why? Dunno.
centrox
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jan, 2018 03:03 pm
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:
someone often votes me down on the beautiful animals thread. Why? Dunno.

I am aware that some people thumb posts down in order to collapse them, as a kind of "mark as read" thing, and they do not mean to express displeasure or disagreement.
Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 28 Jan, 2018 12:35 am
@centrox,
I'm aware of that too. However, this happens a lot. Although it may be someone collapsing a thread occasionally, I believe that someone is giving me a thumbs down for other reasons.
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