Dash it!

[BelgarionOz]

I have Titanium. Usually in a colloquial self mocking usage.

Getting back to the original post... I'm not sure what the purpose of all the hyphens between the words is? It looks clunky to me. Somewhat off putting to read. Whenever I see hyphens like that it makes me automatically break out the technical part of my brain. This is something that I have to take in every bit of otherwise I wont understand whats being said, and I should read it all before I try to understand it.

If you're doing it to perhaps show the pacing (ie: you want this said slower) then I can kind of understand it. But otherwise it just looks wrong somehow.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

From this side of various oceans and continents: I have read 'eejit' in other fiction, so I know what it means and I recognise it as Irish. I have never heard the word used here in Australia, but when I first read it I had no trouble understanding it from the context and from its similarity to the word 'idiot'.

Good stuff, thanks. For my last Ulster-based book I used beta-readers from various places around the world (and Juliana has kindly read this one) to see where I was going too far - it's amazing what translates through context.

I have Titanium. Usually in a colloquial self mocking usage.

Getting back to the original post... I'm not sure what the purpose of all the hyphens between the words is? It looks clunky to me. Somewhat off putting to read. Whenever I see hyphens like that it makes me automatically break out the technical part of my brain. This is something that I have to take in every bit of otherwise I wont understand whats being said, and I should read it all before I try to understand it.

If you're doing it to perhaps show the pacing (ie: you want this said slower) then I can kind of understand it. But otherwise it just looks wrong somehow.

It is a one off usuage, but it's there to show it's a single thought linked at speed. But I have been known to commit the odd offence against English - this might be one. Thank you.

 

[Ursa major]

It could also be seen as two phrases turned into two adjectives (which is what they are, as they are describing the man's face), in the same way as in 'his wind-swept hair', or 'her consensus-smashing speech'.

We gave you Jedward to hammer home the meaning of the word.

I thought they were eejeds.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

In research for a script I came across Paul O'Grady discussing eejit with Brendan O'Carroll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5pZ8UZAgQ

 

[tinkerdan]

ee·jit
/ˈējit/
nouninformal
noun: eejit; plural noun: eejits
Irish and Scottish form of idiot.

From the web so add lots of salt perhaps.