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Involves a "5-week-long" or "5-week long" treatment. - ?


Posted: Jul 12, 2012

This would involve a "5-week long" treatment to the breast. 

If can have 2 meanings... - Spouse of Harried Transcriptionist

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If it's POSSIBLE that "5-weeks long-treatment" might be the interpretation of a hypothetical reader, then: MUST USE 2 hyphens .

why would a spouse answer an MT question - dont MTs answer MTs?

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To: Spouse of Harried Transcriptionist - tmt

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I'm not trying to be contrary, but you're reading too much into the statement. The statement "5 week long treatment" is very common in MT world, and it's okay either way the OP has it.

Kudos for trying, but your suggestion changes the text, thus changing the meaning.

It even would've been okay if the OP had just simply transcribed "5 week long treatment" and left it at that.

um, thats cause he is not an MT - how would he know anything

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He is the SPOUSE of an MT.


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