Creutzer comments on Bridge Collapse: Reductionism as Engineering Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Creutzer 20 February 2014 01:39:45AM *  -1 points [-]

I don't think it's listed explicitly at either of the links, but the principle I'm using is that of hyphenating when you want to make clear that a compound is a compound, and not (e.g.) an adjective happening contingently to modify a noun.

Except Adj-Noun compounds are not actually productive in English. (Also, magnifying glass is arguably from "magnifying" the gerund, not the participle.)